NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +504%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA104

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

123 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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