NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1282MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +554%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA106

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

12 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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