NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

177% significantly better overall score

1901 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3987 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

43067 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48969 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44042 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

87% significantly higher boost clock speed

947 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

47% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

176 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

126% significantly better floating point performance

5.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

27% slightly more shading units

2816

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

176

57% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 604

220th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 290X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 290X in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the Radeon R9 290X.