NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 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

3792 points

7111 points

87% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

175 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

88 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

58 FPS

119 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

39 FPS

65 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1340.13 points

3139.35 points

134% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

64172 points

124547 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

116149 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50239 points

83390 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

122638 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50377 points

127645 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

735 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1215 MHz

1560 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly 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

288 GB/s

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

133% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.76 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

92% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

145.8 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.67 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

310% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

6144

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

192

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

128th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 April

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 A4000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 beats the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The RTX A4000 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 RTX A4000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 over the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q.