NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce 940A

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A 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

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1282MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +1040%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

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

61.54 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

GA106

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

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

6.6

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