NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1695MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +1262%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 +1013%

19908

Radeon RX 560

1788

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +3000%

93

Radeon RX 560

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +1183%

154

Radeon RX 560

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +852%

200

Radeon RX 560

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +954%

116

Radeon RX 560

11

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +490%

189

Radeon RX 560

32

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +397%

199

Radeon RX 560

40

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +122%

209

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

10496

Shading Units

1024

328

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

16

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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