NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1282MHz vs 1100MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +399%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

3840

Shading Units

896

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Emerald

-

GPU Variant

Emerald XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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