Sapphire Radeon VII
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Radeon VII is based on the AMD Radeon VII (GCN 5.1) and has 16 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 1024 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (Ampere) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Radeon VII has the Vega 20 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 5.1 architecture.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G is based on the graphics chip GA104-200-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
Sapphire Radeon VII GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G
AMD Radeon VII Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Vega 20 XT GPU Chip GA104-200-A1
GCN 5.1 Architecture Ampere
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 38
3840 Shader 4864
64 Render Output Units 80
240 Texture Units 152
0 Raytracing Cores 38

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Radeon VII clocks at 1.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 2.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 8 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR6
1.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
2.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
1024 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
4096 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.400 GHz Base Clock 1.410 GHz
1.750 GHz Boost Clock 1.800 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.67 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Radeon VII is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 300 W.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 240 W.

300 W TDP 240 W
-- TDP (up) 250 W
99 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Radeon VII is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 75 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
32 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
52 dB Noise (Load) 38 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Radeon VII.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Radeon VII it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Non addressable LED LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

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 Radeon VII is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

268 mm Length 290 mm
120 mm Height 131 mm
42 mm Width 60 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
1280 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Radeon VII has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q1/2019.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G came on the market in Q4/2020 and will have a structure width of 8 nanometers manufactured.

21291-01-40G Part-no GV-N306TAORUS M-8GD
Q1/2019 Release date Q4/2020
699 $ (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)

Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
65 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G
8 GB GDDR6
73 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
116 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G
8 GB GDDR6
130 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
150 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Master 8G
8 GB GDDR6
179 fps (avg)

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

Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
76267

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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