AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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AMD FirePro W9100 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 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 12 GB GA104 +143%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Mar 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

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

44

Compute Units

-

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

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii GL44

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

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 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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