AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Sep 2021
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
3584
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
113.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
GA104-150-KC-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
170W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
-
8.6