AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +1560%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

320

Shading Units

3840

20

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GA106

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

12 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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