GeForce RTX 3060 vs 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
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%
12740
FirePro W9000
3994
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
-
Compute Units
32
28
SM Count
-
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
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 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
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
