GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI FireGL 8700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated83
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.81
Power efficiencyno data17.88
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR200GA106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date14 August 2001 (23 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data3584
Core clock speed250 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1777 MHz
Number of transistors60 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data170 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000199.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs8112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed270 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/s360.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2001 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL 8700 and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL 8700 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop one.


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