NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1777MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +280%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

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

29.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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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