AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2700MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 260W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 9070 XT +73%

22.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2021

Navi IV(RX 9000)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2210 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2700 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

4096

Shading Units

3584

256

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

64

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

259.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

691.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

44.24 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

22.12 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

260W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 48

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

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

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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