
amd
Brand3GB GDDR5
Memory2048
Cores288 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7990

nvidia
Brand12GB GDDR6
Memory3584
Cores360 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7990
Radeon HD 7990
$999 • Apr 2013
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
$329 • Jan 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7990 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 3 GB | 12 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
TDP | 375 W | 170 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | 1000 MHz | 1777 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 360 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 8nm |
Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
Shading Units | 2048 | 3584 |
RT Cores | N/A | 28 |
TMUs | 128 | 112 |
ROPs | 32 | 48 |
Memory Bus | 384-bit | 192-bit |
Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1875 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 85.3 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 288 GTexel/s | 360 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 4.096 GFLOPS | 12.74 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 0.75 MB | 3.00 MB |
Die Size | 365 mm² | 276 mm² |
Transistors | 4313 Million | 12000 Million |
Required PSU | 750 W | 450 W |
Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 1x 12-pin |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
DirectX | 11.1 | 12.2 |
Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon HD 7990
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon HD 7990
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon HD 7990
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon HD 7990
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon HD 7990
AMD • 3GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
NVIDIA • 12GB GDDR6
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