NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +400%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3840

Shading Units

1536

120

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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