GeForce MX250 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1282MHz vs 1038MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX250
797
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+1135%
9846
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
937 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
1038 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
30
384
Shading Units
3840
24
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
24.91 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
12.46 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
797.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
24.91 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108B
GPU Name
GA106
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
