GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Quadro RTX 5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking98not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.29no data
Power efficiency12.32no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU104GA106
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,299 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores30723840
Core clock speed1620 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz1282 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate348.5153.8
Floating-point processing power11.15 TFLOPS9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs192120
Tensor Cores384120
Ray Tracing Cores4830

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s288.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 5000 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 283.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000
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