NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +4002%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

-

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

12

3840

Shading Units

96

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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