AMD Radeon R9 M390X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M390X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390X 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390X

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +232%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390X

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

817 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3840

128

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GA106

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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