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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +55%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Aug 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

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

3584

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Fiji

GA104

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

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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