NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (3000MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT +406%

64.51 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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Radeon RX 7950 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

3000 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

5376

112

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

192

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

576.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1008 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

129.0 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.51 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.016 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT+

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

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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