GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon 9800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon 9800 XT
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon 9800 XT
58
GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon 9800 XT
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x Molex
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
-
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
3.296
Memory type
GDDR6
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
9.0
CUDA
8.6
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.5
-
Vulkan
1.2
N/A