NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1665MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +440%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

4864

Shading Units

1536

152

TMUs

96

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

31.20 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

185W

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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