NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD FirePro W4100

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD FirePro W4100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4100 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +1875%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W4100

0.645 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

FirePro W4100

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Aug 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

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.08 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.16 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

645.1 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

40.32 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA104

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

123 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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