GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs FirePro D500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking422not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.74no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiGA106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores15363840
Core clock speed725 MHz1627 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1852 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate69.60222.2
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS14.22 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs96120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length279 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s336.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 185 Watt

RTX 3060 3840SP has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 48.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D500 and GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP is a desktop one.


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AMD FirePro D500
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