AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 370X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/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 8 GB +383%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/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

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GA106

Trinidad XT

GPU Variant

GA106-302-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

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 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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