NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon HD 7990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1777MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +211%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon HD 7990

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Malta

GA104

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

365 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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