ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +961%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GA106

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

12 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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