NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640M 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 640M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1282MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 640M
0.48 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+1951%
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
817 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
384
Shading Units
3840
32
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
20.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
20.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA106
N13P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
12 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
