AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

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

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +947%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Sep 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

112

16

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

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

GA104

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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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