GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon RX 6850 XT - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon RX 6850 XT
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
2250 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
26,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
325 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
648.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.3