Quadro RTX 6000 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 6000

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1440 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

199.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3