NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +418%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 1024SP

2.458 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon RX 460 1024SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

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

1200 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/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

19.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.458 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.458 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 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

GA104

GPU Name

Baffin

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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