AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1852MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +143%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3840

144

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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 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 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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