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

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

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2498MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +381%

61.39 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1929 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

96

3584

Shading Units

6144

112

TMUs

384

64

ROPs

192

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

96

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

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

355W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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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