NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 840M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 840M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1425MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 840M

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +1167%

10.94 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce 840M

67

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +3876%

2664

GeForce 840M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

GA106

N15S-GT

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

60-115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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