AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon R9 Nano NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (170W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +55%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

GeForce RTX 3060 +90%

8760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 Nano

28

GeForce RTX 3060 +57%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 Nano

60

GeForce RTX 3060 +33%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 Nano

75

GeForce RTX 3060 +54%

116

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

Pirate 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

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

3584

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GA106

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

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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