NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 12 years late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+961%
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
800
112
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
RV770
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
4.1
