Radeon R9 390X2 vs GeForce RTX 3060

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking81not rated
Place by popularity4not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation71.68no data
Power efficiency18.11no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameGA106no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35842
Core clock speed1320 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1777 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)170 Wattno data
Texture fill rate199.0no data
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs112no data
Tensor Cores112no data
Ray Tracing Cores28no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6512
Maximum RAM amount12 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4ano data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)GDDR5
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
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