Radeon RX 6900 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6900 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 21
GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2020
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2250 MHz
1283 MHz
Core clock speed
1825 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
26,800 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
720.0
153.8
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2