AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1777MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700

7.949 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +60%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700

8499

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

8760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700

35

GeForce RTX 3060 +25%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700

68

GeForce RTX 3060 +17%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700

105

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

116

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 5700

20

GeForce RTX 3060 +50%

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 5700

31

GeForce RTX 3060 +16%

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 5700

49

GeForce RTX 3060 +14%

56

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700

51

GeForce RTX 3060 +7%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700

97

GeForce RTX 3060 +4%

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700

135

GeForce RTX 3060 +5%

142

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 +28%

64

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700

74

GeForce RTX 3060 +10%

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 +35%

180

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 5700

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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