NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R7 250E

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD Radeon R7 250E

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1455%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250E

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon R7 250E

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic 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

1125 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

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

12.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 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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