GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Tesla C2070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking514not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.33no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF100GA106
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 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 cores4483840
Core clock speed574 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1282 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)238 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate32.14153.8
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs56120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed747 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.4 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 Connectors1x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 238 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 3060 Max-Q has an age advantage of 9 years, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 296.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla C2070 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla C2070 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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