NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +210%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

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

32.06 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tonga

GA104

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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