RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated33
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.71
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106no data
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
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 cores19207424
Core clock speed945 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1380 MHzno data
Number of transistors10,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate165.6no data
Floating-point processing power5.299 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs120no data
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no data

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 3.0 x16no 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 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 150 Watt

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh has 87.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh and RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation card while RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile
RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile

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