NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 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 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+584%
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
1124 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
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
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA106
N16P-GT
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
