AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1777MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +157%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +101%

7428

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +275%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +240%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +230%

132

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +141%

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +57%

154

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2022

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

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

GA106-302-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

6.6

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