AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +2453%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

320

Shading Units

3584

20

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

48

-

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

85.30 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

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

170W

200 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

GA106

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

12 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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