NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +2576%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

3584

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

R600

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

240W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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