NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +3303%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

4864

Shading Units

320

152

TMUs

16

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

R600

GA103-200-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.72 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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