NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1777MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +150%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570

5.095 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +126%

8760

Radeon RX 570

3860

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +144%

44

Radeon RX 570

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +135%

80

Radeon RX 570

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +123%

116

Radeon RX 570

52

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +103%

55

Radeon RX 570

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +98%

101

Radeon RX 570

51

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +105%

142

Radeon RX 570

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +66%

50

Radeon RX 570

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +43%

82

Radeon RX 570

57

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

133

Radeon RX 570

100

GeForce RTX 3060

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Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

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

39.81 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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