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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 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 3 years and 7 months late

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

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1480MHz vs 1282MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +159%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

10

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP106

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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