Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
21151
Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
December 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
253.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2