NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD FirePro D300

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD FirePro D300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 162.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +485%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro D300

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

FirePro D300

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2014

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

1270 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

162.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA104

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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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