NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +399%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Antilles

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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