NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +1974%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

FirePro

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

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Cayman

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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