Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R680
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
825 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.20
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 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
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2