AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Ellesmere GA106
GPU variant Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)
Architecture GCN 4.0 Ampere
Foundry GlobalFoundries Samsung
Manufacturing process 14 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 5,700 million 13,250 million
Die size 232 mm² 276 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 4th, 2016
Generation Arctic Islands
Production Active
Launch price 179 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 46 in our database
Predecessor Pirate Islands
Successor Polaris

Clocks

Base clock 926 MHz 817 MHz
Boost clock 1206 MHz 1282 MHz
Memory clock 1650 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective 1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 211.2 GB/s 288.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 3840
TMUs 128 120
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 2 MB 3 MB
SM count 30
Tensor cores 120
RT cores 30

Performance

Pixel rate 38.59 GPixel/s 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture rate 154.4 GTexel/s 153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 4.940 TFLOPS (1:1) 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 4.940 TFLOPS 9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 308.7 GFLOPS (1:16) 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot
Length 240 mm 9.4 inches
Width 95 mm 3.7 inches
Height 35 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 120 W 60 W
Suggested PSU 300 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number C940, D000-03, D009-07

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.6
CUDA 8.6

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 12th, 2021
gpu.details.availability Feb 2nd, 2021
Generation GeForce 30 Mobile
Predecessor GeForce 20 Mobile
Production Active
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 1 in our database

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