Radeon RX 570 and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 570

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 20 Ellesmere

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1244 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1168 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,095 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

159.2

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

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

224.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

FreeSync