AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
Oct 2022
Generation
Arctic Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
-
Shading Units
2304
3584
TMUs
144
112
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA104
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
GA104
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
195W
Suggested PSU
450 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
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6