AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +211%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/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

250W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 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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