NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 12GB VRAM RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 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

Lower TDP (60W vs 110W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1665MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

9.846 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation +151%

24.72 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

58

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

7424

120

TMUs

232

48

ROPs

80

120

Tensor Cores

232

30

RT Cores

58

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

386.3 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

24.72 TFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.72 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

386.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD104

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

110W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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