AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
+472%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Sep 2021
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
1536
Shading Units
3584
96
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
170W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GA104-150-KC-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
