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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 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 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1777MHz vs 930MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +1238%
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 255 OEM
0.952 TFLOPS
VS

Graphics Card

Sep 2021
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
930 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
73.60GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
8
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
512
112
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
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
14.88 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
29.76 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W
TDP
65W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GA104-150-KC-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRX
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
123 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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