GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Quadro M3000M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	357	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	13.51	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GM204	GA104
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 August 2015 (9 years ago)	19 October 2022 (2 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 cores	1,024	4864
Core clock speed	1050 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	67.20	253.1
Floating-point processing power	2.15 TFLOPS	16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	80
TMUs	64	152
Tensor Cores	no data	152
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	38

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 size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	242 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 12-pin

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	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	608.3 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+
Display Port	1.2	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	+	-
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.7
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	+	1.3
CUDA	5.2	8.6

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 August 2015	19 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	225 Watt

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