Radeon RX 470 and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Radeon RX 470
8339
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
15854
Radeon RX 470
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
October 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
926 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
154.4
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
240.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
FreeSync
+
-