Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 10

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2017

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1600 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1382 MHz

Floating-point performance

13,107 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

409.6

199.0

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1890 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

483.8 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

1.1.125

1.2