NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD FirePro S9050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB AMD FirePro S9050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +294%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

FirePro S9050

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

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3584

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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