NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1665MHz vs 1545MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +127%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +145%

11685

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +104%

49

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +102%

93

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +81%

129

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +74%

68

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +64%

122

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +64%

166

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +45%

61

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +47%

99

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +35%

149

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/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

49.44 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

12 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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