NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +947%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic 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

1125 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

3584

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

80W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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