NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
Mar 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1792
TMUs
112
112
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
200W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.1