NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
May 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
Navi IV
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
1420 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2790 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
432.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
46
Shading Units
3584
3072
TMUs
112
192
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
112
96
RT Cores
28
48
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
8 MB
Compute Units
—
48
L3 Cache
—
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
267.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
535.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
68.57 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
34.28 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
1071.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Navi 48
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Navi 48 XL
Architecture
Ampere
RDNA 4.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
4 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
53.9 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
357 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
220W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.