NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 39.00
$ 245.17 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
58522% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
10648% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
897 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
10164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
50% significantly higher core clock speed
875 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
1100% significantly more memory
1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
35 W
385% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
568th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.4

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon HD 8490 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon HD 8490.

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