AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +2453%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

320

Shading Units

3584

20

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

77 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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