GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Quadro P5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	165	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	52
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	6.24	no data
Power efficiency	12.59	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GP104	GA104
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	1 October 2016 (8 years ago)	1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	$329

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	2048	3584
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	1320 MHz
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz	1777 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	170 Watt
Texture fill rate	277.3	199.0
Floating-point processing power	8.873 TFLOPS	12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	48
TMUs	160	112
Tensor Cores	no data	112
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	28

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	242 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	12 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1127 MHz	1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	360.0 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+
Display Port	1.4	no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus	+	-
3D Stereo	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.6
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	6.1	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 October 2016	1 September 2021
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	12 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	170 Watt

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