NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs ATI FireGL V3600

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3464 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +8747%

12.74 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

120

112

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

73W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV630

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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