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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1695MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +234%

32.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

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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

1335 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

30

9728

Shading Units

3840

304

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

120

76

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

32.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

515.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

80-150W

TDP

60W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 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

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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