NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD FirePro W7100

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD FirePro W7100 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD FirePro W7100

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 189.96

$ 94.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

358% significantly better overall score

1150 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

26 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

272% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25868 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

25403 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

269% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24202 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27600 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

920 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

160 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

150 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

189% significantly higher pixel rate

29.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

103 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

286% significantly better floating point performance

3.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

100% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

255th of 586

Family

The product line

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce RTX 3060 vs FirePro W7100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the FirePro W7100 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the FirePro W7100 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the FirePro W7100.