NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1777MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +280%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +336%

8760

Radeon R9 280

2009

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 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

827 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x 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 (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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA T1000 8 GB

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

7

NVIDIA Tesla T4 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Intel Arc Pro A50

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon Sky 700