NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +55%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +90%

8760

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +57%

44

Radeon R9 Nano

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

80

Radeon R9 Nano

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +54%

116

Radeon R9 Nano

75

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate 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

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

3584

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Fiji

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 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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