GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon HD 6870
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
2464 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6870 Advantages
Lower TDP (151W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+531%
12740
Radeon HD 6870
2016
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1050 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1120
112
TMUs
56
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
28.80 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
TDP
151W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Barts
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
(215-0798000)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
255 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
