NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +60%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

8780

Radeon RX 5700

8497

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +25%

44

Radeon RX 5700

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

80

Radeon RX 5700

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

116

Radeon RX 5700

105

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +50%

30

Radeon RX 5700

20

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +16%

36

Radeon RX 5700

31

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +14%

56

Radeon RX 5700

49

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +7%

55

Radeon RX 5700

51

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +4%

101

Radeon RX 5700

97

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

142

Radeon RX 5700

135

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

Radeon RX 5700 +28%

64

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

82

Radeon RX 5700

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 5700 +35%

180

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 10

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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