AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+234%
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 290
3694
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+230%
12223
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
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
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
2560
Shading Units
4864
160
TMUs
152
64
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
225W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GA104-202-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
-
CUDA
8.6
6.3
Shader Model
6.7
