NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1852MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +173%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

3840

Shading Units

1408

120

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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