GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon R7 250E - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon R7 250E

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Cape Verde

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

December 2013

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

819.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

512

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

55 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

25.60

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

72 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

8.6

-

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2

1.2.131