AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (195W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +143%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2816

Shading Units

3584

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

GA104

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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