NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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 260W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (2245MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE +260%

45.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 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

1287 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2245 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

3584

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

160

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

359.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

718.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.96 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.98 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1437 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XL

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

260W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 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

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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