NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 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 6 months late

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2581MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +3%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

230W

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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 22

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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