NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2250MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +62%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

5120

120

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

128

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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