NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 2 years late

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (2105MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +26%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA104

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

392 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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