NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 +532%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

4864

Shading Units

1280

152

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA103S

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA103-200-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

496 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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