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Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3060 Ti outperforms Radeon HD 7870 XT on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is 2934 days newer than Radeon HD 7870 XT.

Advantages of Radeon HD 7870 XT

  • Consumes up to 8% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - 185 vs 200 Watts

Advantages of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

  • Performs up to 51% better in Rust than Radeon HD 7870 XT - 145 vs 96 FPS
  • Up to 300% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT - 8 vs 2 GB
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Rust

Rust

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT Logo
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Desktop • Nov 19th, 2012


FPS

96

66%

Value, $/FPS

Price, $

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Logo
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Desktop • Dec 1st, 2020


FPS

145

100%

Value, $/FPS

$3.37/FPS

100%

Price, $

$489

100%

FPS and Value Winner

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card

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With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT Logo
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Desktop • Nov 19th, 2012

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Logo
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Desktop • Dec 1st, 2020

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT Logo
Radeon HD 7870 XT

Desktop • Nov 19th, 2012


Pixel Fillrate

31.2 GPixel/s

23%

Texel Fillrate

93.6 GTexel/s

37%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Logo
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Desktop • Dec 1st, 2020


Pixel Fillrate

133.2 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

253.1 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT Logo

Radeon HD 7870 XT

vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Logo

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Nov 19th, 2012Release Date
Dec 1st, 2020
Southern IslandsGenerationGeForce 30
$270
MSRP$399
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pinPower Connectors1x 12-pin
Desktop
Segment
Desktop
2 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
256-bitBus256-bit
192 GB/sBandwidth
448 GB/s
925 MHzBase Clock Speed
1410 MHz
975 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1665 MHz
1500 MHzMemory Clock Speed
1750 MHz

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With selected game settings

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