NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 640

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 640 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 640

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 199.99

$ 84.18 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

848% significantly better overall score

556 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

507% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15883 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15859 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

523% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14348 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

425% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1082 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1287 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

542% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

50 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

314% significantly higher pixel rate

20.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

286% significantly higher texture rate

51.48 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

318th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 600 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the Radeon RX 640 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 640 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon RX 640.