GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking778not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.12no data
Power efficiency0.81no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR700GA103S
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 November 2008 (16 years ago)23 February 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$420 $399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8004864
Core clock speed625 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors956 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate25.00253.1
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs40152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed995 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.68 GB/s448.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 November 2008 23 February 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 200 Watt

RTX 3060 Ti GA103 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 587.5% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 X2 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103. We've got no test results to judge.


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