NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2019
Jan 2015
Generation
Quadro Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
600 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1215 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
—
Shading Units
1920
1024
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
240
—
RT Cores
30
—
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.76 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
145.8 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.331 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.666 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.8 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
GM206
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM206-300-A1
Board Design
TDP
60W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.