NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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

8016% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 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

26% slightly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

184.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

115% significantly better floating point performance

5.91 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 586

530th 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 390X comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the Radeon R9 390X in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390X at 275 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 390X.