NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +122%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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