AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2815MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +120%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

16

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GA104

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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