GeForce RTX 2060 vs FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated126
Place by popularitynot in top-10019
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data41.73
Power efficiencyno data16.83
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiTU106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 March 2014 (10 years ago)7 January 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,599 $349

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 cores17921920
Core clock speed825 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHz1680 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt160 Watt
Texture fill rate106.4201.6
Floating-point processing power3.405 TFLOPS6.451 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs112120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length305 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s336.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 7 January 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 160 Watt

RTX 2060 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 134.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB and GeForce RTX 2060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 2060 is a desktop one.


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AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB
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