AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +162%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290

3681

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +100%

7392

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA106

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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