NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1282MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +278%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

120

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA106

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

12 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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