Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking145not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.55no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU102
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)4 September 2019 (5 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 cores30724608
Core clock speed600 MHz1275 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate259.2419.0
Floating-point processing power8.294 TFLOPS13.41 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs192288
Tensor Cores384576
Ray Tracing Cores4872

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 sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 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 amount16 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s672.0 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++

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
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 4 September 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 200 Watt

RTX 5000 Max-Q has 150% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q and Quadro RTX 6000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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