Radeon HD 3870 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon HD 3870
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV670
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
777 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
-
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
2252 MHz
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
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2