AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD FirePro D500 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +472%

12.74 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA106

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

170W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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