Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs Quadro RTX 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking69not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.32no data
Power efficiency12.77no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU102TU106
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,299 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 cores46081920
Core clock speed1440 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate509.8165.6
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs288120
Tensor Cores576240
Ray Tracing Cores7230

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 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 amount24 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s336.0 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 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
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 6000 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, and 225% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 6000 and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
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