GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 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
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1282MHz vs 1095MHz)
896 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
6447
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+52%
9846
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
30
2944
Shading Units
3840
184
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
368
Tensor Cores
120
46
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GA106
N18E-G3-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
12 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
