NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Apr 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1175 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1275 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
112.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
48
16
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
20.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
81.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.611 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
163.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Polaris 21
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 4.0
Foundry
Samsung
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
8 nm
14 nm
Transistors
12 billion
3 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
123 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
75W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
1,855
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
799