AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 6800 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2250MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (195W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +62%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

72

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

4608

Shading Units

3584

288

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

72

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

195W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GA104

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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