NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1777MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +24%

8780

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

7078

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/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

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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