AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +294%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GA106-300-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

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