NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +504%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

3584

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

45W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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