Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV770
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 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
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2