NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 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 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

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

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +143%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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