NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and AMD FirePro S9300 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 850 MHz
77.1x more texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 31 March 2016
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9300 X2

2.1x more pipelines: 2x 4096 vs 3840
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 6 GB

Pipelines	2x 4096 vs 3840
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	AMD FirePro S9300 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917
Geekbench - OpenCL		27971

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	AMD FirePro S9300 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 3.0
Code name	GA106	Capsaicin
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	31 March 2016
Place in performance rating	114	852
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$5,999
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1425 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2x 4096
Pixel fill rate	68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s	2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	8,900 million
Floating-point performance		2x 6,963 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	2x 512.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2x 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready