Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh vs Tesla P40

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking174not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.59no data
Power efficiency8.81no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP102TU106
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 September 2016 (8 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,699 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 cores38401920
Core clock speed1303 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speed1531 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors11,800 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate367.4165.6
Floating-point processing power11.76 TFLOPS5.299 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs240120
Tensor Coresno data240
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1808 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth347.1 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA6.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 September 2016 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 80 Watt

Tesla P40 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 212.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla P40 and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla P40 is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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