NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1777MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

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

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +387%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 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

16

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

48

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

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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