AMD Radeon RX 5300 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5300 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 5300

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5300

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1327 MHz vs 1320 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Around 70% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 170 Watt

Core clock speed	1327 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 170 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1645 MHz
Around 37% higher texture fill rate: 199.0 GTexel/s vs 144.8 GTexel/s
2.5x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1408
4x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 3 GB
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 712
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 7561
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88177 vs 39363

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 28 May 2020
Boost clock speed	1777 MHz vs 1645 MHz
Texture fill rate	199.0 GTexel/s vs 144.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines	3584 vs 1408
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	971 vs 712
PassMark - G3D Mark	17107 vs 7561
Geekbench - OpenCL	88177 vs 39363

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5300
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

712

971

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7561

17107

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39363

88177

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5300	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
PassMark - G2D Mark	712	971
PassMark - G3D Mark	7561	17107
Geekbench - OpenCL	39363	88177
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		299.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4021.382
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		28.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		188.944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1152.664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		8780

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5300	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 14	GA106
Launch date	28 May 2020	12 Jan 2021
Launch price (MSRP)	$129	$329
Place in performance rating	167	137
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz	1777 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1327 MHz	1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	289.5 GFLOPS (1:16)	199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.265 TFLOPS (2:1)	12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.632 TFLOPS	12.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	3584
Pixel fill rate	52.64 GPixel/s	85.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	144.8 GTexel/s	199.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	170 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	13250 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	180 mm (7.1 inches)	242 mm (9.5 inches)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 12-pin
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
Width		112 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12	12.2
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	168.0 GB/s	360 GB/s
Memory bus width	96 Bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6