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GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3060 makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which features clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 170 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G 275 Watts
Difference: 105 Watts (62%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 390 8G should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 384000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 368640 MB/sec
Difference: 15360 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G is a bit (about 8%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 147840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12160 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G 64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 63360 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 640 (1%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3060 Radeon R9 390 8G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2021 June 2015
Code Name GA106 Grenada PRO
Memory (Unknown) MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1320 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1875 GB/s 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 275 watts
Bandwidth 368640 MB/sec 384000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 147840 Mtexels/sec 160000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 63360 Mpixels/sec 64000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3584 2560
Texture Mapping Units 112 160
Render Output Units 48 64
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 13250 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3060

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Radeon R9 390 8G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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