GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 270X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1777MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+373%
12740
Radeon R9 270X
2688
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060
+394%
8747
Radeon R9 270X
1769
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
1280
112
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
180W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Curacao
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
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
