GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon RX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1665MHz vs 1545MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+127%
16200
Radeon RX 590
7119
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+155%
12223
Radeon RX 590
4775
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+176%
5941
Radeon RX 590
2147
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+108%
50
Radeon RX 590
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+95%
90
Radeon RX 590
46
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+94%
138
Radeon RX 590
71
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+89%
74
Radeon RX 590
39
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+77%
131
Radeon RX 590
74
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+71%
173
Radeon RX 590
101
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+57%
66
Radeon RX 590
42
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+52%
102
Radeon RX 590
67
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+40%
155
Radeon RX 590
110
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Nov 2018
GeForce 30
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1469 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
2304
152
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.44 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
175W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Polaris 30
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4