FireGL 8700 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

FireGL 8700

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R200

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2001

January 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.000

199.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

540 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8.64 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2