NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
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
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Boost Clock
1777 MHz
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Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
512bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
345.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
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Shading Units
3584
2816
TMUs
112
176
ROPs
48
64
Tensor Cores
112
—
RT Cores
28
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
—
44
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Hawaii
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
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
170W
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
6.6
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
8,935
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,231
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.