Polaris 30 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Polaris 30
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 30
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
January 2021
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
-
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
199.0
Memory type
-
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
12 GB
Memory bus width
-
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2