NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1425MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +1729%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

11

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

352

120

TMUs

44

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

2.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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