GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs Quadro Plex 7000

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated168
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Power efficiencyno data27.91
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF110GA106
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$14,999 no data

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 cores5123840
Core clock speed574 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate36.74171.0
Floating-point processing power1.176 TFLOPS10.94 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs64120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length522 mmno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 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 Connectors4x DVI, 2x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 3060 Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro Plex 7000 and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro Plex 7000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
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