NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

3504 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +12150%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cedar

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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