AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 370X

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1777MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +383%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2021

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1030 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

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GA104

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

6.7

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