NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 6230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon HD 6230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

3504 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +12150%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6230

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 6230

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Park

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Park S3 LP

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

59 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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