GeForce RTX 3060 and Quadro T500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060

Quadro T500 Mobile

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Ampere GA106

TU117

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

January 2021

May 2019

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

1695 MHz

Core clock speed

1320 MHz

1365 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

896

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

25 Watt

Texture fill rate

199.0

94.92

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5, GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

15000 MHz

10000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

360.0 GB/s

80 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2