AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +162%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3684

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +144%

9002

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

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

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

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CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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