NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD FirePro W4170M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1282MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +1324%

9.846 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

3840

Shading Units

384

120

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Opal

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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