GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB vs Quadro K600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking900not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.19no data
Power efficiency3.36no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGK107GA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)6 July 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1922560
Core clock speed876 MHz1237 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1492 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate14.02119.4
Floating-point processing power0.3364 TFLOPS7.639 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length160 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.51 GB/s168.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA3.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 6 July 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 75 Watt

Quadro K600 has 82.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K600 and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K600 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K600
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