NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (2310MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +85%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

Radeon RX 6950 XT +138%

21457

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

128

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

335W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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