Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3850 X3 Advantages
Lower TDP (145W vs 170W)
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 Advantages
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
3264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
428
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
+2876%
12740
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Sep 2021
Radeon R600
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
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
320
Shading Units
3584
16
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
170W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA104
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.6