Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
12926
Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
1702 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
817 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
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
93.60
171.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
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