NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon HD 7990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1777MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +211%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 7990

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Malta

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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