NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +5597%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

2

3840

Shading Units

96

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

4

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF108

-

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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