Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1282MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
3723
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+164%
9846
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Jan 2021
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
817 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
2048
Shading Units
3840
128
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GA106
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5 billion
Transistors
12 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.3
Shader Model
6.6