GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs Xbox Series S GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated102
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.93
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLockhartGA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (3 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 cores12803584
Core clock speed1565 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1777 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate125.2199.0
Floating-point processing power4.006 TFLOPS12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs80112
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Length274 mm242 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s240.0 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 2.11x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 12 October 2022
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 170 Watt

Xbox Series S GPU has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 70% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 8 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Xbox Series S GPU and GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Xbox Series S GPU
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