GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Radeon Pro Vega 56

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking173not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10048
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.70no data
Power efficiency10.47no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10GA104
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 $329

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35843584
Core clock speed1138 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate280.0199.0
Floating-point processing power8.96 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs224112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed786 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/s360.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 1 September 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 23.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega 56 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 56 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
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