FirePro M3100 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking164not rated
Place by popularity68not in top-100
Power efficiency29.33no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGA106Mars
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores3840384
Core clock speed900 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1425 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate171.016.80
Floating-point processing power10.94 TFLOPSno data
ROPs488
TMUs12024
Tensor Cores120no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no data

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s32 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.56.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.21.2.170
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm

RTX 3060 Mobile has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and FirePro M3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while FirePro M3100 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
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AMD FirePro M3100
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