Radeon RX 460 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile 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
Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages
Lower TDP (55W vs 60W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1282MHz vs 1180MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 460 Mobile
2115
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+365%
9846
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2021
Mobility Radeon
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
1180 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
896
Shading Units
3840
56
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
18.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
66.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
2.115 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
2.115 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
132.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
55W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Baffin
GPU Name
GA106
Baffin XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3 billion
Transistors
12 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6