NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP 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 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1777MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +537%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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Radeon R9 370 1024SP

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

925 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

975 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

16

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

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

31.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 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

Trinidad

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

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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