AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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AMD Radeon R9 390 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 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 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +148%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 390

3953

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +127%

8988

Radeon R9 390

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

40

Compute Units

-

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

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GA104

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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 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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