NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 30
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
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Boost Clock
1777 MHz
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Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
960
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
112
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RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Barts
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Ampere
TeraScale 2
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
127W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,747
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,097
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3DMark Speed Way
2,181
—
Battlefield 5 1080p
142
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
44
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
80
—
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
36
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
116
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Battlefield 5 2160p
55
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
56
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
101
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GTA 5 2160p
50
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GTA 5 1440p
82
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GTA 5 1080p
133
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.