Radeon R9 290 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
Radeon R9 290
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
947 MHz
1320 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
199.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2