NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon HD 7850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1627 MHz
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Boost Clock
1852 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
—
Shading Units
3840
1024
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
120
—
RT Cores
30
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
88.90 GPixel/s
27.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
222.2 GTexel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.22 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
14.22 TFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.2 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GA106-400-A1
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
185W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,334
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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325
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.