Quadro RTX 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Quadro RTX 4000 leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks (64% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 takes 1 (21% in PassMark G2D Mark). On qwen2.5:14b, the Quadro RTX 4000 generates 30.0 tokens/s (per localscore.ai) against 26.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per LocalScore.ai), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Quadro RTX 4000 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. Released 2018 (Quadro RTX 4000), 2021 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060). Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Turing

Quadro RTX 4000

8 GB VRAM160W TDP2018

Full Quadro RTX 4000 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Quadro RTX 4000	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb	8	12
vram type	—	GDDR6
tdp w	160	170
cuda cores	2304	3584

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, TopCPU.net, CpuTronic and Geekbench Browser; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Quadro RTX 4000	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, 3DMark	—	5,074 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark	3,666 points	2,170 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, CpuTronic	—	1,984 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 (Graphics score) (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	1,847 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	1,978 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark	14,340 points	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews	—	9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net	6,708 points	—
Blender GPU Cycles (higher is better) Source: CpuTronic	5,293 points	—
Geekbench 5 OpenCL (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	144,947 points	—
Geekbench 5 Vulkan (higher is better) Source: Geekbench Browser	126,474 points	—

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Quadro RTX 4000

llama3.2:1b: 189.0 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)
llama2:7b: 65.6 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA performance scoreboard))
llama2:7b: 61.8 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussions #15013)

All Quadro RTX 4000 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)
llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)
llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Quadro RTX 4000 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060?

The Quadro RTX 4000 leads on 2 of 3 shared benchmarks (64% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 takes 1 (21% in PassMark G2D Mark).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen2.5:14b, the Quadro RTX 4000 generates 30.0 tokens/s (per localscore.ai) against 26.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per LocalScore.ai), best community run on file for each.