GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX Vega Nano

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated83
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.86
Power efficiencyno data17.88
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10GA106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$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 cores40963584
Core clock speed1200 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1546 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate395.8199.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs256112
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
Length152 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MBps1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 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 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 3060 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 2.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega Nano and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.


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