AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 1024SP and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1777MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 460 1024SP

2.458 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +418%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 1024SP

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2017

Release Date

Sep 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

76.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

2.458 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.458 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

153.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA104

Baffin XT

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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