AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+472%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 2022
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
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
1536
Shading Units
3584
96
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
48
-
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
85.30 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
GA106
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
12 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
276 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
6.6
