AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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AMD Radeon R9 390

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +177%

14.22 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

Base Clock

1627 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2560

Shading Units

3840

160

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

185W

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GA106

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

GA106-400-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

6.7

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