AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 2017
Sep 2021
Generation
Polaris
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1090 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1875 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
360.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
896
3584
TMUs
56
112
ROPs
16
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 21
GA104
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
GA104-150-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
123 mm²
392 mm²

Board Design

TDP
45W
170W
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
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
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
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8,935
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4,231