NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 is a workstation graphics card. It has 6 GB of video memory and a 80 W board power rating. It scores 10,654 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Depth: 28 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified July 25, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs and NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix. Coverage: 3 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 scores 10,654 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #284), measured across 2,012 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 468.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 averages DirectX 9 160 fps, DirectX 10 70 fps, DirectX 11 83 fps, DirectX 12 43 fps and GPU Compute 3,743 ops/s, across 2,012 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 6 GB of memory, a core clock of 945 MHz, DirectX 12.0 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2019-07-15. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Not to be confused with
This page covers the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 is equipped with 6 GB of memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 has a board power rating of 80 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (4th Generation, decoder engines: 3).
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 have?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 has 6 GB of video memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 has a board power rating of 80 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 scores 10,654 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #284. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 43 fps.
Does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 has CUDA compute capability 7.5.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 use?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.