AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +148%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 390

3950

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +88%

7428

Radeon R9 390

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

170W

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

GA106-302-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

6.6

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