AMD Radeon E9172 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1282MHz vs 1219MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +688%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jan 2021

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

512

Shading Units

3840

32

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA106

E9170

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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