NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

3504 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +13170%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4520

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV710

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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