NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs AMD FireStream 9270

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +961%

12.74 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

VS

FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

800

112

TMUs

40

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

12.00 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

RV770

GA104

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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