NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 8 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

174% significantly better overall score

1919 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

32 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

121% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3950 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46328 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

49594 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43704 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 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

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

61% significantly lower TDP

275 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

24% slightly higher texture rate

160 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

148% significantly better floating point performance

5.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

160

42% many 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 586

215th 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

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R9 390 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 390 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly 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. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the Radeon R9 390.