GeForce RTX 3060 and Quadro RTX 8000 Passive - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
TU102
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
January 2021
August 2018
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1620 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
18,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
260 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
466.6
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
8.6
7.5
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.131