Quadro K6000 SDI and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Quadro K6000 SDI

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK110

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2013

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

902 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2880

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

239 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

216.5

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2