Quadro M6000 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Quadro M6000

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM200

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1114 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

988 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,844 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

213.9

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

317.4 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.3