NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon E8950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1282MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +140%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3840

Shading Units

2048

120

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Amethyst

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GPU Variant

E8950

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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