NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2022
Nov 2014
Generation
GeForce 30
Crystal System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1365 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
174.7GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GA104
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
195W
80W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None

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