NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/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 GA104 +387%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

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

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

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

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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 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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