AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 170W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
+1174%
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Sep 2021
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1320 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
28
800
Shading Units
3584
40
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
112
-
RT Cores
28
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GA104
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.6
