NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 340 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 Clock has increased by 128% (1777MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2026%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 340 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R7 340 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

730 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

28

SM Count

-

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

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Oland

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

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

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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