Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
360.0 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