AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 4 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +187%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

38

2816

Shading Units

4864

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

225W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

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