NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI 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 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +905%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Feb 2013

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

800 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

3584

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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