Radeon HD 3870 AGP and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV670

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

777 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.43

199.0

Memory type

GDDR4

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.3 GB/s

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72.06 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.16.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2