NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 340X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1743%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R5 340X OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Oland

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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