AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD FirePro W8100

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +201%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

28

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

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

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.7 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

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

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

GA104-150-KC-A1

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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