Quadro RTX A6000 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
Quadro RTX A6000
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Ampere
GA104
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
October 2020
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin EPS
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1800 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
1410 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10752
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
625.0
199.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
768.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Vulkan
1.2
1.3