NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

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

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +48%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

8.602 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +69%

8780

Radeon R9 FURY X

5173

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

44

Radeon R9 FURY X

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +23%

80

Radeon R9 FURY X

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +45%

116

Radeon R9 FURY X

80

GeForce RTX 3060

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Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Fiji

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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