NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 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

5276 points

5962 points

13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

136 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

81 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

92 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

61 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7879 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

1543.63 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

0.13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

99084 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

91343 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

67503 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

91343 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

79119 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

120% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

1350 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

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

384 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

80 W

112% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

86.4 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

259.20 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

53% significantly better floating point performance

8.29 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

16% slightly more shading units

3072

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

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

81st 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 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 5000 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.