AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1665MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +177%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +180%

11663

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +188%

49

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +165%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +158%

129

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +175%

99

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +40%

149

Radeon RX 480

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

4864

144

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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA104

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 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 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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