AMD Radeon R9 370 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon R9 370 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (1777MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370

2.496 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +410%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

78.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.496 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

156.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GA106

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

170W

300 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

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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