NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +675%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

4864

Shading Units

1440

152

TMUs

72

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cypress

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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