ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +2795%

12.74 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

320

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA104

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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