AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1665MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +227%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +217%

11685

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +308%

49

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +272%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +222%

129

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +191%

99

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +52%

149

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Dec 2020

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

2048

Shading Units

4864

128

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

392 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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