NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon VII

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1777MHz vs 1750MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +5%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

3584

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Vega 20

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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