NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2430MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +192%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/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

233.3 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 32

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

263W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

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

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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