GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2012
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 3060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 3060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 3060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU NameGA106 (GA106-300-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti LE)
Fab Process8 nmvs28 nm
Die Size300 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors13,250 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders3840vs1536
Compute Units30vs24
Core clock1627 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs120vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 3060Radeon HD 7870 XT
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 3060Radeon HD 7870 XT
TDP180 wattsvs185 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs19 Nov 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    118.50 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    222.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    88.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 3060
    14220.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    2842.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better