AMD Radeon R9 380X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 380X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +220%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

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

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

GA104

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

195W

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 (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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