NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2019
Apr 2021
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Quadro Ampere
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
600 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1215 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
64
Shading Units
1920
8192
TMUs
120
256
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
240
256
RT Cores
30
64
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.76 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
145.8 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.331 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.666 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.8 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
GA102
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
60W
230W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.