RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking257not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.54no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106AD106
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores23044608
Core clock speed600 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed1215 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate175.0244.1
Floating-point processing power5.599 TFLOPS15.62 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs144144
Tensor Cores288144
Ray Tracing Cores3636

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s256.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 3000 Max-Q has 91.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

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


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
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