NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
19% slightly better overall score
3792 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
52 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
58 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
39 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
1340.13 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
64172 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
68305 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
50239 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
68305 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
50377 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
49% significantly higher core clock speed
600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
40% slightly higher boost clock speed
1215 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB
6 GiB
0.49% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
Identical
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
16% slightly higher memory bandwidth
288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
60 W
33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
77.76 Gigapixels/s
13% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
17% slightly higher texture rate
145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS
134% significantly better floating point performance
4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
100% significantly more shading units
1920

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
Identical
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
128th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q.

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