Apple Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Full Specs

Summary

3,584 Shaders 1.25GHz	3,584 Shaders 1.78GHz
8GB HBM2402.4GB/s	12GB GDDR6360GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 8.96 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.74 TFLOPS
Form Factor Soldered	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 120W	TDP 170W
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1250MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1777MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 17.92 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 407.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 50.95 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 101.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 25.48 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.74 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 25.48 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 50.95 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 8.96 TFLOPS	FP32 12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 560 GFLOPS	FP64 199 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 203.8 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 101.9 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 19.21 TOPS
Pixel Rate 80 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 85.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 280 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 199 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 3,584 Shaders	Shaders 3,584 Shaders
TMUs 224 TMUs	TMUs 112 TMUs
ROPs 64 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 28 RT-Cores
CUs 56 CUs	SMs 28 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.14GHz	Base Clock 1.32GHz
Boost Clock 1.25GHz	Boost Clock 1.78GHz

Cache

L1 16KB/CU	L1 64KB/SM Tex
L2 Cache 4MB shared	L2 Cache 3MB shared

Memory

8GB HBM2	12GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 2048-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 1.6GT/s	Memory Speed 15GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 402.4GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 360GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 120W	TDP 170W
Max Temp -	Max Temp 93°C Max

Video Output

Max Resolution 7680x4320	Max Resolution 7680x4320
Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz	Refresh Rate Calculator 7680x4320 Resolution8K UHD Refresh Rate 60Hz
Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 4
Adaptive Sync - FreeSync	Adaptive Sync G-Sync FreeSync
DSC Not Supported	DSC Supported
HDCP HDCP 2.2	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.1

API Support

Shader Model 6.7	Shader Model 6.6
DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_1	DirectX DirectX 12 Direct3D 12_2
OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.3	OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3 Vulkan 1.2
CUDA - GFX 9 PureVideo HD - VDPAU -	CUDA 8.6 GFX - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K

Encoder

Encoder VCE 4.0	Encoder NVENC 7
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265)

Decoder

Decoder UVD 7.0	Decoder NVDEC 5
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Card

Form Factor Soldered	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe PCIe 3.0 x16 -	PCIe PCIe 4.0 x8 1.9-Slots
-	Height 112mm (4.41") Width 242mm (9.53") Depth 38mm (1.5")
Cooling Open-Air -	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin
Multi-GPU Multi-GPU Support Supported Multi-GPU Type CrossFire XDMA	Multi-GPU -

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture GCN 5	Architecture Ampere
Family Radeon Pro Vega	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename Greenland	Codename NV176
Chip Variant Vega 10 XL	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Aug 17, 2017	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry GlobalFoundries	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node 14LPP	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 486mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 12.5B	Transistor Count 13.3B
Transistor Density 25.72 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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