Quadro2 Pro vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	49	not rated
Place by popularity	23	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	69.06	no data
Power efficiency	18.21	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GA104	NV15 A4
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	1 December 2020 (4 years ago)	22 March 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4864	no data
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	17,400 million	25 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	253.1	0.8
Floating-point processing power	16.2 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	80	4
TMUs	152	4
Tensor Cores	152	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	38	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	7.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	8.6	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 December 2020	22 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	180 nm

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