NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+368%
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
Evergreen
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
1200 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1600
112
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Cypress
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
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
