NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1852MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +143%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

2304

120

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

232 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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