NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1845MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +145%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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