Radeon RX 590 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon RX 590

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Polaris 30

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

222.5

153.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

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

FreeSync