Radeon Instinct MI50 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI50

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 20

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1746 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1200 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

419.0

199.0

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2 GB/s

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.02 TB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.5

Vulkan

1.3

1.2