NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +27%

8760

Radeon RX Vega 56

6876

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +46%

44

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +40%

80

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

116

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

55

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +8%

101

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +13%

142

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +8%

50

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

Radeon RX Vega 56 +10%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +20%

133

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce RTX 3060

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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