AMD Radeon RX 560X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon RX 560X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1852MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +444%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

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 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

6.7

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