NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1852MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +247%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 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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