NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1852MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +561%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

896

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Baffin

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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