NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD FirePro W9000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +218%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2012

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

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

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

31.20 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT 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

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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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