Quadro RTX 8000 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

August 2018

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

153.8

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2