NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 OEM 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 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +5037%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Radeon R5 235 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

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

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

160

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Caicos

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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