NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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

Lower TDP (170W vs 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2498MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +381%

61.39 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +312%

30621

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2499

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +87%

4680

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +182%

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +168%

228

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

132

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +134%

310

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +106%

60

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +208%

108

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +220%

176

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

76

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +130%

175

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +113%

175

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +23%

190

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1929 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2498 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

96

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

6144

112

TMUs

384

48

ROPs

192

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

96

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

479.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

959.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

122.8 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

61.39 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.918 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

355W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

529 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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