NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1777MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +150%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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