NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs AMD FirePro W8000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +294%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2012

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

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

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

28.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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