Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
vs
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (RDNA 1) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Ampere) and has 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has the Navi 10 XLE graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 1 architecture.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is based on the graphics chip GA106-300-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE GPU ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Navi 10 XLE GPU Chip GA106-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Ampere
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2304 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 112
0 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is 15.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.875 GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.130 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.882 GHz
1.56 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.85 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 160 W.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 170 W.

160 W TDP 170 W
195 W TDP (up) 180 W
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
34 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
39 dB Noise (Load) 33 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED ASUS Aura Sync

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

231 mm Length 301 mm
123 mm Height 143 mm
40 mm Width 54 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q1/2020.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition came on the market in Q1/2021 and will have a structure width of 8 nanometers manufactured.

11296-05-20G Part-no TUF-RTX3060-O12G-GAMING
Q1/2020 Release date Q1/2021
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 529 $
7 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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