Radeon RX 6950 XT and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6950 XT
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2022
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
2324 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1925 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
26,800 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
335 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
743.7
199.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
576.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3