Radeon VII and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon VII

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 20

GA104

Market segment

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2