nvidia
Brand12GB GDDR6
Memory3584
Cores360 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory1792
Cores240 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7950
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
$329 • Jan 2021
Radeon HD 7950
$449 • Jan 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7950 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 3 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 170 W | 200 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1777 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 360 GB/s | 240 GB/s |
| Process Size | 8nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 1.0 |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 1792 |
| RT Cores | 28 | N/A |
| TMUs | 112 | 112 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 192-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1875 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 85.3 GPixel/s | 25.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 360 GTexel/s | 89.6 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 12.74 GFLOPS | 2.867 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 3.00 MB | 0.75 MB |
| Die Size | 276 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 12000 Million | 4313 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 550 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.2 | 11.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
AMD Radeon HD 7950
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
NVIDIA • 12GB GDDR6
AMD Radeon HD 7950
AMD • 3GB GDDR5
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