NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1905MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +30%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 10

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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