NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +55%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +95%

9002

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Aug 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

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Fiji

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

596 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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