AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +496%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

768

Shading Units

3840

48

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

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GA106

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12 billion

160 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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