AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1777MHz vs 1226MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +189%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

274.6 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 LE1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-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

6.7

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