Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
15854
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
October 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3