NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (1777MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +274%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Orthrus

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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