AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (170W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +80%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6900 XT +132%

20932

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

Radeon RX 6900 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2021

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

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

5120

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

80

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

85.30 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

170W

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 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

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

6.6

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