SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT
vs
ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has 5376 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.45 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 52.69 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.87 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 13.39 TFLOPS.

GPU

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB
Navi 31 GPU Chip GA106-302-A1
RDNA 3 Architecture Ampere
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
5376 Shader 3584
192 Render Output Units 48
336 Texture Units 112
84 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a 20 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.500 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.875GHz.

20 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.450 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB is 1.867 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
2.450 GHz Boost Clock 1.867 GHz
2.08 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

331 W TDP 170 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT is 53 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

313 mm Length 200 mm
134 mm Height 123 mm
53 mm Width 38 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT was released in Q4/2022.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 White OC Edition 8GB published in Q4/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

11323-02-20G Part-no DUAL-RTX3060-O8G-WHITE
Q4/2022 Release date Q4/2022
899 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $ (Reference)
5 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

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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