NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1852MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +8%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

4096

120

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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