GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs Iris Xe MAX Graphics
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1650MHz vs 1282MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+288%
9846
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2534
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Oct 2020
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
HD Graphics-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
817 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1282 MHz
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2133 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
68.26GB/s
Render Config
30
SM Count
-
3840
Shading Units
768
120
TMUs
48
48
ROPs
24
120
Tensor Cores
-
30
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
61.54 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.60 GPixel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
79.20 GTexel/s
9.846 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.069 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.534 TFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
633.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
25W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
DG1
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.1
Samsung
Foundry
Intel
8 nm
Process Size
10 nm
12 billion
Transistors
Unknown
276 mm²
Die Size
95 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
