AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (2310MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +85%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

80

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-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

Board Design

335W

TDP

170W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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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