NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD FireStream 9370

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD FireStream 9370 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 825 MHz
  • 3015.2x more texture fill rate: 199.0 GTexel/s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
  • 2.2x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1600
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
  • 6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17107 vs 2528
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 971 vs 763
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 June 2010
Core clock speed 1320 MHz vs 825 MHz
Texture fill rate 199.0 GTexel/s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 1600
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 17107 vs 2528
PassMark - G2D Mark 971 vs 763

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9370

  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)
Memory clock speed 4600 MHz vs 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9370

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17107
2528
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
971
763
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD FireStream 9370
PassMark - G3D Mark 17107 2528
PassMark - G2D Mark 971 763
Geekbench - OpenCL 88251
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 299.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4021.382
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 28.778
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 188.944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1152.664
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22495
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8783

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD FireStream 9370

Essentials

Architecture Ampere TeraScale 2
Code name GA106 Cypress
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 23 June 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Place in performance rating 136 134
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1777 MHz
Core clock speed 1320 MHz 825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3584 1600
Pixel fill rate 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 199.0 GTexel/s 66.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 13250 million 2,154 million
Floating-point performance 2,640.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 242 mm (9.5 inches) 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s 147.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective) 4600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5