AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 11 months late

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

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +449%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3840

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GA106

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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