NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 263W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2430MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +192%

37.32 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8767

Radeon RX 7800 XT +128%

20023

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

44

Radeon RX 7800 XT +90%

84

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

Radeon RX 7800 XT +100%

160

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

Radeon RX 7800 XT +113%

248

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

30

Radeon RX 7800 XT +43%

43

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

36

Radeon RX 7800 XT +213%

113

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

Radeon RX 7800 XT +198%

167

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

Radeon RX 7800 XT +180%

140

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

Radeon RX 7800 XT +70%

140

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 7800 XT +42%

190

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

54

Radeon RX 7800 XT +81%

98

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

41

Radeon RX 7800 XT +97%

81

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

25

Radeon RX 7800 XT +108%

52

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

3584

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

96

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 32

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

263W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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