NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

AMD Radeon R9 390X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 Clock1777MHz

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +115%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

5.914 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +74%

7428

Radeon R9 390X

4245

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon R9 390X

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

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Grenada

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

438 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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