NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
- Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1156 MHz
- Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1777 MHz vs 1471 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
- Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 210 Watt
- Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
- Around 5% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1577 vs 1501
- Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 768
- Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15295 vs 13093
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 12 Oct 2022 vs 14 August 2017 |
| Core clock speed | 1320 MHz vs 1156 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz vs 1471 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm vs 14 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 170 Watt vs 210 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1577 vs 1501 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 971 vs 768 |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 15295 vs 13093 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s
| Texture fill rate | 330.00 GTexel/s vs 199.0 GTexel/s |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB | AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 |
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| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1577 | 1501 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 971 | 768 |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 15295 | 13093 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 163998 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 184.405 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1765.06 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 12.606 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 79.32 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 1022.925 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 14462 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3717 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3361 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 14462 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3717 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3361 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB | AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 5.0 |
| Code name | GA106 | Vega 10 |
| Launch date | 12 Oct 2022 | 14 August 2017 |
| Place in performance rating | 82 | 224 |
| Design | Radeon RX Vega Series | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 | |
| Type | Desktop | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1777 MHz | 1471 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 1320 MHz | 1156 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | 14 nm |
| Pipelines | 3584 | 3584 |
| Pixel fill rate | 85.30 GPixel/s | 94.00 GP/s |
| Texture fill rate | 199.0 GTexel/s | 330.00 GTexel/s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 170 Watt | 210 Watt |
| Transistor count | 12000 million | 12,500 million |
| Compute units | 56 | |
| Floating-point performance | 10.5 TFLOPs | |
| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 21 TFLOPs | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 10.5 TFLOPs | |
| Render output units | 64 | |
| Stream Processors | 3584 | |
| Texture Units | 256 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Form factor | Dual-slot | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | 242 mm, 9.5 inches | 267 mm |
| Recommended system power (PSU) | 450 Watt | 650 Watt |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Width | 112 mm, 4.4 inches | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
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Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 240.0 GB/s | 410 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | 2048 bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1875 MHz, 15 Gbps effective | 1600 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | HBM2 |
Technologies |
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| AMD Eyefinity | ||
| AMD Radeon™ Chill | ||
| AMD Radeon™ ReLive | ||
| FreeSync | ||
| PowerTune | ||
| TressFX | ||
| TrueAudio | ||
| Unified Video Decoder (UVD) | ||
| Video Code Engine (VCE) | ||
| Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) | ||
| VR Ready | ||
| ZeroCore | ||
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