GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED 967 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1665 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

9,715

N/A

geekbench_opencl

12,630

109,075

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

2,626

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

107,543

passmark_directx_10

N/A

132

passmark_directx_11

N/A

163

passmark_directx_12

N/A

78

passmark_directx_9

N/A

234

passmark_g2d

N/A

989

passmark_g3d

N/A

20,349

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

10,006

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 870M

RTX 3060 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,344

4,864 +261.9%

Shaders

1,344

4,864 +261.9%

TMUs

112

152 +35.7%

ROPs

24

80 +233.3%

SM Count

—

38

Clocks

Base Clock

941 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1665 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

8,192 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

120.0 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

133.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.599 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)

253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

38

Tensor Cores

—

152

Power

TDP

100 W

200 W

TDP (W)

100

200 +100.0%

Suggested PSU

—

550 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Ampere

GPU Name

GK104

GA104

Generation

GeForce 800M

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

17,400 million

Die Size

294 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.0M / mm²

44.4M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700M

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 900M

GeForce 40

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