NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
4704 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+8000%
16.2 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 230
0.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+33%
12223
Radeon R5 230
9189
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
160
152
TMUs
8
80
ROPs
4
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
19W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Caicos
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
