Radeon RX 5500 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5500 XT

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 14 XTX

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2019

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1845 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1607 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,400 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

162.4

199.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2