AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +122%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

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

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

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

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

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

170W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GA106

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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