AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +152%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2816

Shading Units

3840

176

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

185W

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

GA106

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.7

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