AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1852MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (185W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP
+148%
14.22 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1627 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1852 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
2816
Shading Units
3840
176
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
88.90 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
14.22 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.22 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
222.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
185W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 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 Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GA106
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GA106-400-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
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
6.7
