RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Quadro RTX 3000 X2 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.93
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106AD102
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a 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 cores192014080
Core clock speed945 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate165.61,082
Floating-point processing power5.299 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs64176
TMUs120440
Tensor Cores240440
Ray Tracing Cores30110

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB48 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s864.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 285 Watt

RTX 3000 X2 Mobile has 78.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 X2 Mobile and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 3000 X2 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 X2 Mobile
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