AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2013
Sep 2021
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1777 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
360.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
3584
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Saturn
GA104
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
392 mm²

Board Design

TDP
100W
170W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6