NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +752%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 800M

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

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

640

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA106

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

12 billion

148 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

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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