NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3344 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +4323%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

3584

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

12

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

R600

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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