AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +484%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA106

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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