AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +78%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 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

195W

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

GA104

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

12 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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