AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1282MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +140%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GA106

E8950

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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