Product Compare
AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2016 | Jan 2021 |
| Generation | Arctic Islands | GeForce 30 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 926 MHz | 1627 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1206 MHz | 1852 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1650 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 211.2GB/s | 336.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 3840 |
| TMUs | 128 | 120 |
| ROPs | 32 | 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 | 38.59 GPixel/s | 88.90 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 154.4 GTexel/s | 222.2 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 4.940 TFLOPS | 14.22 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 4.940 TFLOPS | 14.22 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 308.7 GFLOPS | 222.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Ellesmere | GA106 |
| GPU Variant | Polaris 10 PRO(215-0876204) | GA106-400-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Ampere |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | Samsung |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 5.7 billion | 12 billion |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 120W | 185W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 12-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.7 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |