NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1852MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +439%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

30

SM Count

-

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Trinidad

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 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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