NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Mar 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
-
Shading Units
3584
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
48
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
85.30 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-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
6.6
5.1