GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX A5000-8Q - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
RTX A5000-8Q
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
April 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
1695 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
8192
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
230 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
433.9
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3