Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking254not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.87no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU106TU104B
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 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 cores23043072
Core clock speed600 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1215 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate175.0296.6
Floating-point processing power5.599 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs144192
Tensor Cores288384
Ray Tracing Cores3648

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s448.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 3000 Max-Q has 83.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
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