Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Radeon HD 6870
2285
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
21151
Radeon HD 6870
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2010
December 2020
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-