Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2022 | Jun 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 | |
| Boost Clock | 1777 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1875 MHz | 1350 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 512bit |
| Bandwidth | 240.0GB/s | 345.6GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 28 | |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 2816 |
| TMUs | 112 | 176 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 112 | |
| RT Cores | 28 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 3 MB | 1024 KB |
| Compute Units | 44 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 113.7 GPixel/s | 64.00 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 199.0 GTexel/s | 176.0 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 12.74 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 12.74 TFLOPS | 5.632 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 199.0 GFLOPS | 704.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA104 | Hawaii |
| GPU Variant | GA104 | Hawaii XT(215-0852000) |
| Architecture | Ampere | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 17.4 billion | 6.2 billion |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 438 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 195W | 580W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 950 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 4x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.3 |