NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000 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
$ 134.75
$ 149.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
321% significantly better overall score
1252 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
99 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
71 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
280% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2302 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
945% significantly higher Blender score
221.61 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
495% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
16648 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
424% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
18372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
256% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
20969 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
347% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
20001 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
23838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
64% significantly higher core clock speed
800 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
120 W
41% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
72% significantly higher pixel rate
49.47 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
147% significantly higher texture rate
80.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
395% significantly better floating point performance
2.57 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
115% significantly more shading units
1664

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
7% slightly more texture mapping units
104

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

98th of 586
247th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Quadro M4000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 beats the Quadro M4000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Quadro M4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the Quadro M4000.

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