Radeon 520 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon 520

811

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

Radeon 520

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Oland

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

659.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

199.0

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2250 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2