RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 efficiency24.79no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106AD107
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 MHz1635 MHz
Boost clock speed1215 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate175.0203.0
Floating-point processing power5.599 TFLOPS12.99 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs14496
Tensor Cores28896
Ray Tracing Cores3624

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 4.0 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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s256.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent
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 Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 2000 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
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