NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 128% (1777MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +2453%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Oland

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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