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

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

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP HDCP 2.2	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.1

Encoder

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

Decoder

Decoder Model UVD 7.0	Decoder Model 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 1.9-Slots
-	Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 242 mm (9.53") Depth 38 mm (1.5")
Cooling Open-Air -	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors -	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

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 12.5 Billion	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density 25.72 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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