ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +961%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Oct 2022

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GA104

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GA104

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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