AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +287%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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