NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1852MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +444%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

3840

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

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

20.40 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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 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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