NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1665MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +177%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +194%

12265

Radeon RX 480

4164

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +194%

50

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +157%

90

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +176%

138

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +183%

102

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +46%

155

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

38

SM Count

-

4864

Shading Units

2304

152

TMUs

144

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

232 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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