Quadro P500 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Quadro P500

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP108

GA104

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2017

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1519 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1455 MHz

Floating-point performance

679.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

18 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

21.25

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32.1 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.0.1

1.3