NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon E8870
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Sep 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
768
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
64
16
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Saturn
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Saturn PRO
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
75W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
6.3