NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1777MHz vs 1560MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +77%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +13%

8760

Radeon RX 5600 XT

7703

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +41%

44

Radeon RX 5600 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +25%

80

Radeon RX 5600 XT

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

116

Radeon RX 5600 XT

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

55

Radeon RX 5600 XT

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +9%

101

Radeon RX 5600 XT

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +13%

142

Radeon RX 5600 XT

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +34%

82

Radeon RX 5600 XT

61

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 5600 XT +27%

170

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 10

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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