RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking254not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.87no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106GA107
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 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 cores23042560
Core clock speed600 MHz652 MHz
Boost clock speed1215 MHz1140 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate175.091.20
Floating-point processing power5.599 TFLOPS5.837 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14480
Tensor Cores28880
Ray Tracing Cores3620

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 x8
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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s132.0 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 Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 30 March 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm

RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q and RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile 6 GB
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