AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6876

GeForce RTX 3060 +27%

8760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

GeForce RTX 3060 +40%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

GeForce RTX 3060 +8%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GeForce RTX 3060 +13%

142

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce RTX 3060 +8%

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +10%

91

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

133

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vega

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

224

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

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA106

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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

Board Design

210W

TDP

170W

550 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 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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