AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1852MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +187%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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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