AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Dec 2016
Jan 2021
Generation
Radeon Instinct
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
500 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
817 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1282 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
6GB
Memory Type
HBM
GDDR6
Memory Bus
4096bit
192bit
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
64
-
Shading Units
4096
3840
TMUs
256
120
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
120
RT Cores
-
30

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
256.0 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.192 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.192 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
512.0 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Fiji
GA106
GPU Variant
Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
-
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
8.9 billion
12 billion
Die Size
596 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
175W
60W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6