NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 380

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 304.83 significantly less expensive

$ 589.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

312% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

212% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2801 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

29877 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33763 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

28196 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33667 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

970 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

83% significantly higher boost clock speed

970 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

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

8900% significantly higher memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

11% slightly lower TDP

190 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

174% significantly higher pixel rate

31.04 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

83% significantly higher texture rate

108.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

266% significantly better floating point performance

3.48 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

100% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

244th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2015 June

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 380 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 380 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 380 at 190 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon R9 380.