NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, 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

3792 points

0.99% slightly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

96 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

58 FPS

64 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

39 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1340.13 points

1954.21 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

64172 points

84002 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

76373 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50239 points

58378 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

73300 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50377 points

69543 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1215 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

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

288 GB/s

Identical

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

16% slightly lower TDP

70 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.76 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

145.8 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.67 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

71% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

3328

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

15% slightly more texture mapping units

104

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

128th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 August

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

Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs RTX A2000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q GPU is faster than the RTX A2000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a slightly 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the RTX A2000 at 70 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is better than the RTX A2000.