Radeon RX 480 and GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X - video card comparison
Radeon RX 480
GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
2022
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1777 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
304.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-