NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1470MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

9.032 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +9%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

30

3072

Shading Units

3840

96

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

96

Tensor Cores

120

24

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

70.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

141.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

9.032 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

9.032 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

141.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X4

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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