NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 170.10
$ 114.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
109% significantly better overall score
2513 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
65 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
62 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
41 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
31 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
724% significantly higher Blender score
281.16 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
622% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
13735 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
501% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
16029 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
17881 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
368% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
19104 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
327% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
20167 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
103% significantly higher core clock speed
650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
130% significantly higher boost clock speed
771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
49% significantly more memory
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
87% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
150 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
130% significantly higher pixel rate
37.01 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
34% slightly higher texture rate
148 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
258% significantly better floating point performance
3.55 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
55% significantly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
192
71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
176th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Quadro K5200 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Quadro K5200 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K5200 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the Quadro K5200.

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