NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2150MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +72%

22.02 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

320

48

ROPs

128

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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