GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs FirePro D300

Place in the ranking	444	34
Place by popularity	not in top-100	14
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	83.23
Power efficiency	4.66	25.46
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	AD106
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores	1280	4352
Core clock speed	850 MHz	2310 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2535 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	160 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	344.8
Floating-point processing power	2.176 TFLOPS	22.06 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	80	136
Tensor Cores	no data	136
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	34

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	242 mm	240 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 16-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	162.6 GB/s	288.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.20	59.39
Recency	18 January 2014	18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	160 Watt

FirePro D300 has 6.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Ti, on the other hand, has a 482.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D300 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D300 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.