AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1777MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +211%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

195W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GA104

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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