AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1665MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +295%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Dec 2020

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

4864

128

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GA104

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

200W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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