AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1905MHz vs 1777MHz)

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9.754 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +30%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Sep 2021

Navi

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605MHz

Base Clock

1320MHz

1905MHz

Boost Clock

1777MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1875MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

28

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4MB

L2 Cache

3MB

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10,300 million

Transistors

17,400 million

251mm²

Die Size

392mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

170W

550W

Suggested PSU

450W

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

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CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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