NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 11 months late

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (2105MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +26%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

3584

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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