Radeon VII and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Radeon VII
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Vega 20
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2019
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
13,230 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
420.0
199.0
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3