GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Radeon RX 590

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking229not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10048
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.05no data
Power efficiency9.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 30GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 November 2018 (6 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 $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 cores23043584
Core clock speed1469 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5199.0
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs144112
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
Length241 mm242 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2018 1 September 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 2.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104. We've got no test results to judge.


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