FirePro D500 and GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

January 2014

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2