NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1777MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +284%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

850MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

925MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1250MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

4,313 million

276mm²

Die Size

352mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

200W

450W

Suggested PSU

550W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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