NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1777MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +157%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GA104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

392 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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