AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W9100
5.238 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060
+143%
12.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
FirePro W9100
3552
GeForce RTX 3060
+146%
8747
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
2816
Shading Units
3584
176
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
48
-
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
85.30 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
170W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x S-Video
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
GA106
Hawaii GL44
GPU Variant
GA106-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
12 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
276 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
6.6
