NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M 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 GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +5028%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

30

96

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

4

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

16.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GA106

N11P-GE-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

12 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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