NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1670MHz vs 1282MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +130%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

30

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GA106

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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