NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 128% (1777MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +2026%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Oland

GA104

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

77 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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