GeForce RTX 3060 and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

Pitcairn

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

November 2014

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

975 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

62.40

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

174.7 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2