Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1650MHz vs 1425MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +331%

10.94 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2021

HD Graphics-M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

768

Shading Units

3840

48

TMUs

120

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

GA106

-

Generation 12.1

Architecture

Ampere

Intel

Foundry

Samsung

10 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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