NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 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 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1645MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +46%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

6.738 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

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

1442 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.3 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

210.6 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

105.3 GFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.738 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

210.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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