NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +220%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +143%

7428

Radeon R9 380X

3050

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 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

1425 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

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

31.04 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

190W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Antigua

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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