RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs GRID M3-3020

Place in the ranking	522	75
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	38.80
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GM107	AD107
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 May 2016 (8 years ago)	12 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores	640	2816
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	1620 MHz
Boost clock speed	1306 MHz	2130 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	52.24	187.4
Floating-point processing power	1.672 TFLOPS	12 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	48
TMUs	40	88
Tensor Cores	no data	88
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	22

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	267 mm	168 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	256.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.0	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	7.66	45.58
Recency	18 May 2016	12 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm

RTX 2000 Ada Generation has a 495% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 2000 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID M3-3020 in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID M3-3020 is a workstation graphics card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.