NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and AMD Radeon Pro W6600 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1792
  • Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Launch date 12 Oct 2022 vs 8 Jun 2021
Pipelines 3584 vs 1792
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600

  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1320 MHz
  • Around 63% higher boost clock speed: 2903 MHz vs 1777 MHz
  • Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 325.1 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
  • Around 31% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 170 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 983 vs 966
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15596 vs 15401
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 2200 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Boost clock speed 2903 MHz vs 1777 MHz
Texture fill rate 325.1 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 170 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 983 vs 966
PassMark - G3D Mark 15596 vs 15401

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6600

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
966
983
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15401
15596
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon Pro W6600
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7434
PassMark - G2D Mark 966 983
PassMark - G3D Mark 15401 15596
Geekbench - OpenCL 72678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 270.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4980.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.735
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 135.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1054.582
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 42325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 42325

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon Pro W6600

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 2.0
Code name GA106 Navi 23
Launch date 12 Oct 2022 8 Jun 2021
Place in performance rating 64 65
Launch price (MSRP) $649

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1777 MHz 2903 MHz
Core clock speed 1320 MHz 2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 3584 1792
Pixel fill rate 85.30 GPixel/s 185.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 199.0 GTexel/s 325.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt 130 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 11060 million
Compute units 28
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 650.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 20.81 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.40 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Single-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches 241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 6-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
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 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6