NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 71.2x more texture fill rate: 153.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
  • 9.7x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 580 Watt
  • Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 27.109 vs 21.128
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 3 September 2015
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 580 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.109 vs 21.128

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 3840
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 817 MHz
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 3840
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
27.109
21.128
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 13388
PassMark - G2D Mark 589
Geekbench - OpenCL 79058
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 339.841
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3898.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.109 21.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 155.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1167.569
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8234

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 2.0
Code name GA106 Grenada
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 3 September 2015
Place in performance rating 130 246
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2x 2560
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready