NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2815MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +120%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

107W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA104

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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