AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1777MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +118%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +116%

9002

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 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

1320 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

170W

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 Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA104

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-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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