AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +504%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

896

Shading Units

3584

56

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

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

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 Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

276 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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