NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1777MHz vs 1545MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +78%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +55%

7392

Radeon RX 590

4761

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +87%

45

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +84%

85

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +85%

132

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +35%

53

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +32%

98

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +38%

140

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +95%

82

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +22%

82

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +40%

154

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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