NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +152%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

2816

120

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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