AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +210%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

32

Compute Units

-

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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA104

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

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

200W

TDP

170W

550 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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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