NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1855MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +143%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500

5.224 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1744 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

3584

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 14

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

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

170W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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