NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +148%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 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

1350 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

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

64.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Grenada

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 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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