Tesla V100 PCIe vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking168not rated
Place by popularity68not in top-100
Power efficiency27.91no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGA106GV100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores38405120
Core clock speed900 MHz1246 MHz
Boost clock speed1425 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate171.0441.6
Floating-point processing power10.94 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48128
TMUs120320
Tensor Cores120no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1758 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s900.1 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)12.0
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.67.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 21 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 250 Watt

RTX 3060 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 212.5% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 PCIe, on the other hand, has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and Tesla V100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is a notebook card while Tesla V100 PCIe is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
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