Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs Quadro P5000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated254
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.87
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameN17E-Q5 Max-QTU106
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date11 January 2017 (7 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 cores20482304
Core clock speed1101 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1366 MHz1215 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data175.0
Floating-point processing powerno data5.599 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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 sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed6006 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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 dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-
VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 60 Watt

P5000 Max-Q has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5000 Max-Q and Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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