AMD Radeon RX 470D vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years 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)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +194%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 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

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

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

113.7 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

195W

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

GA104

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

GA104

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

6.7

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