GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon R9 390

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking242not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation11.77no data
Power efficiency5.76no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGrenadaGA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)19 October 2022 (2 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 cores25604864
Core clock speedno data1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate160.0253.1
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs160152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length275 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin1x 12-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-no data
Maximum RAM amount0 MB8 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s608.3 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI++
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 19 October 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 225 Watt

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X has an age advantage of 7 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 22.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.


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