NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD FirePro S9100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD FirePro S9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +201%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Oct 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

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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