NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +122%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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