NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 82% (3230MHz vs 1777MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9060 XT
+107%
26.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
28
SM Count
48
3584
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
192
28
RT Cores
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Navi 44
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
4 nm
12 billion
Transistors
Unknown
276 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
