Radeon Instinct MI250X and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI250X

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Architecture

CDNA 2.0 (2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Aldebaran

GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2021

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1700 MHz

1777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

6 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

58,200 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

14080

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

1,496

199.0

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

8192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.2 GB/s

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

3,277 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

N/A

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

N/A

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3