NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1455MHz vs 1425MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +158%

28.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

9728

120

TMUs

304

48

ROPs

112

120

Tensor Cores

304

30

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.0 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

442.3 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

28.31 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.31 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

442.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD103

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GPU Variant

GN21-X11

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

12 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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