NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1425MHz vs 1350MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +83%

20.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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

795 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

58

SM Count

30

7424

Shading Units

3840

232

TMUs

120

80

ROPs

48

232

Tensor Cores

120

58

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

313.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

20.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

20.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

313.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

60-115W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X9

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

295 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

6.7

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