NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 92% (1777MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +438%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +363%

7428

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon R9 270

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

900 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Curacao

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 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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