NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon R5 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

3680 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +7010%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

160

120

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Caicos

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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