AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +783%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

960

Shading Units

3840

48

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GA106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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