Graphics card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
Nvidia
GeForce RTX 3060
12288 Mb GDDR6
Released UNRELEASED
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
8192 Mb HBM2
Released 8 Aug 2017
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- 165 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling .
- Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
- Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce RTX 3060
Based on theoretical specifications.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce RTX 3060 | Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling |
|---|
| GPU Name | GA106 (GA106-300-A1) | Vega 10 (Vega 10 XTX) |
| Fab Process | 8 nm | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 300 mm² | 484 mm² |
| Transistors | 13,250 million | 12,500 million |
| Shaders | 3840 | 4096 |
| Compute Units | 30 | 64 |
| Core clock | 1627 MHz | 1406 MHz |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 |
| TMUs | 120 | 256 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce RTX 3060 | Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | HBM2 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | 2048 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective | 945 MHz
1890 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 12288 Mb | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce RTX 3060 | Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling |
|---|
| TDP | 180 watts | 345 watts |
| Release Date | UNRELEASED | 8 Aug 2017 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce RTX 3060118.50 GP/s
- Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling107.30 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce RTX 3060222.20 GT/s
- Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling429.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce RTX 3060336.00 GB/s
- Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling483.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce RTX 306014220.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling13738.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better