NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and AMD Radeon Pro V520 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2304
  • Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
  • Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 968 vs 525
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15389 vs 12258
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Oct 2022 vs 1 Dec 2020
Core clock speed 1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed 1777 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Pipelines 3584 vs 2304
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 968 vs 525
PassMark - G3D Mark 15389 vs 12258

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro V520

  • Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 230.4 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Texture fill rate 230.4 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro V520

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
968
525
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15389
12258
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon Pro V520
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7434
PassMark - G2D Mark 968 525
PassMark - G3D Mark 15389 12258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13220
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13220
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 16807
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 16807
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 37642
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 37642
Geekbench - OpenCL 62815

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon Pro V520

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 1.0
Code name GA106 Navi 12
Launch date 12 Oct 2022 1 Dec 2020
Place in performance rating 64 67
Type Server

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1777 MHz 1600 MHz
Core clock speed 1320 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 3584 2304
Pixel fill rate 85.30 GPixel/s 102.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 199.0 GTexel/s 230.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million
Compute units 36
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 460.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.75 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.373 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 111 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2