NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +115%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate 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

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

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

67.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Grenada

GA104

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

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 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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