NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA Quadro K6000

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and a Professional market GPU: 12GB VRAM Quadro K6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 97% (1777MHz vs 902MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +145%

12.74 TFLOPS

Quadro K6000

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Quadro K6000

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jul 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

797 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

2880

112

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.12 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

216.5 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.732 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GK110B

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-890-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.5

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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