NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1000 MHz
3163.8x more texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 80 GTexel / s
3.8x more pipelines: 4864 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 69% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2795 vs 1651

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Oct 2022 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s vs 80 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4864 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2795 vs 1651

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2795

1651

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2795	1651
PassMark - G3D Mark		4604
PassMark - G2D Mark		586
Geekbench - OpenCL		77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X	AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA104	Pitcairn
Launch date	19 Oct 2022	5 March 2012
Place in performance rating	460	463
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	16.20 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4864	1280
Pixel fill rate	133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	253.1 GTexel/s	80 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,560 gflops
Stream Processors		1024
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm, 9.5 inches	241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	2x 6-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	608.3 GB/s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync