Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking163not rated
Place by popularity89not in top-100
Power efficiency28.15no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA106TU106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores38401920
Core clock speed900 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speed1425 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate171.0165.6
Floating-point processing power10.94 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs120120
Tensor Cores120240
Ray Tracing Cores3030

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm

RTX 3060 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh

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