NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1057%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Aug 2014

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

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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