NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Nov 2013
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
817 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
—
Shading Units
3840
1280
TMUs
120
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
120
—
RT Cores
30
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
74.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Curacao
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Board Design
TDP
60W
150W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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1,603
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.