NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +187%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +196%

11654

Radeon R9 290X

3934

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

4864

Shading Units

2816

152

TMUs

176

80

ROPs

64

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 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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