GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs Radeon RX 5600 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking175not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.40no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 10GA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 January 2020 (4 years ago)2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores20483840
Core clock speed1130 MHz1627 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz1852 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate199.7222.2
Floating-point processing power6.39 TFLOPS14.22 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs128120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s

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
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 185 Watt

RX 5600 OEM has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 23.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5600 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM
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