Quadro K6000 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Quadro K6000

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GK110B

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2013

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

902 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

797 MHz

Floating-point performance

5,196 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

7,080 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2880

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

225 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

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.3