AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1845MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +145%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

3584

88

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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