NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +162%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R9 290

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 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA104

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

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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