AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1777MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Oct 2022

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

4096

Shading Units

3584

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

170W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA106

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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