AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2498MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 355W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +381%

61.39 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +312%

30621

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

7428

Blender

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +87%

4680

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

2499

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +182%

127

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +168%

228

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +134%

310

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

132

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +106%

60

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +208%

108

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +220%

176

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

55

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +130%

175

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

76

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +113%

175

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7900 XTX +23%

190

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

154

Radeon RX 7900 XTX

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Oct 2022

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1929 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2498 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

96

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

6144

Shading Units

3584

384

TMUs

112

192

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

96

RT Cores

28

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

479.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

959.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

122.8 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

61.39 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.918 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

355W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 31 XTX (215-145000146)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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