AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1777MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +78%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4757

GeForce RTX 3060 +84%

8780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

GeForce RTX 3060 +83%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

GeForce RTX 3060 +73%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

GeForce RTX 3060 +63%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

GeForce RTX 3060 +41%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

GeForce RTX 3060 +36%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

GeForce RTX 3060 +40%

142

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

GeForce RTX 3060 +19%

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

GeForce RTX 3060 +22%

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

133

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA106

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

232 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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