GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 590 GME - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon RX 590 GME
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1420 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
204.5
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
8.6
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3