NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and AMD Radeon RX 5600 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1410 MHz vs 1130 MHz
  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1560 MHz
  • Around 27% higher texture fill rate: 253.1 GTexel/s vs 199.7 GTexel/s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 4864 vs 2048
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Launch date 19 Oct 2022 vs 21 Jan 2020
Core clock speed 1410 MHz vs 1130 MHz
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Texture fill rate 253.1 GTexel/s vs 199.7 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4864 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 5600

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X AMD Radeon RX 5600
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 12269
Geekbench - OpenCL 60737
PassMark - G2D Mark 707
PassMark - G3D Mark 12137
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14115
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14115
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 7991
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 7991
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 19735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 19735

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X AMD Radeon RX 5600

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 1.0
Code name GA104 Navi 10
Launch date 19 Oct 2022 21 Jan 2020
Place in performance rating 129 130
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1560 MHz
Core clock speed 1410 MHz 1130 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 253.1 GFLOPS (1:64) 399.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS (1:1) 12.78 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 16.20 TFLOPS 6.390 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4864 2048
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 253.1 GTexel/s 199.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 10300 million
Compute units 32

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 608.3 GB/s 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR6