AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2011
Jan 2021
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1777 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
960
3584
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GA106
GPU Variant
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
GA106-300-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
40 nm
8 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
12 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
254W
170W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
8,747
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
4,097
3DMark Speed Way
-
2,181
Battlefield 5 1080p
-
142
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
44
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
80
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
-
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
116
Battlefield 5 2160p
-
55
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
-
56
Battlefield 5 1440p
-
101
GTA 5 2160p
-
50
GTA 5 1440p
-
82
GTA 5 1080p
-
133