GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1777MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+325%
12740
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2995
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060
+393%
8747
Radeon HD 7870 XT
1773
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060
+1063%
4097
Radeon HD 7870 XT
352
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 30
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1536
112
TMUs
96
48
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
185W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
(215-0821122)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
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
