Radeon Instinct MI6 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon Instinct MI6

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ellesmere

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2016

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1233 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1120 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,682 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

177.6

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2