AMD Radeon RX 470D vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2016
Oct 2022
Generation
Arctic Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
926 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
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Shading Units
1792
3584
TMUs
112
112
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
28
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA106
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
GA106-302-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
12 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
170W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.