RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Tesla M6 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated96
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.26
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGM204no data
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date30 August 2015 (9 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 cores15364608
Core clock speed930 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1180 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate113.3no data
Floating-point processing power3.625 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs96no data

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.7 (6.4)no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 August 2015 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 115 Watt

Tesla M6 Mobile has 15% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M6 Mobile and RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Tesla M6 Mobile
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