AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 2015
Oct 2022
Generation
FirePro
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1875 MHz
Base Clock
-
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1777 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
32GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
240.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
3584
TMUs
176
112
ROPs
64
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
28
Tensor Cores
-
112
RT Cores
-
28

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Hawaii
GA106
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT GL
GA106-302-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
12 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
276 mm²

Board Design

TDP
275W
170W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6