GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+627%
16200
FirePro D500
2227
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 30
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
1536
152
TMUs
96
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
274W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x SDI
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
392 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
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1