AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1777MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +387%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1788

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +402%

8988

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GA104

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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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