Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics 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
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1650MHz vs 1282MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 60W)
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2534
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+288%
9846
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2021
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
768
Shading Units
3840
48
TMUs
120
24
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GA106
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Ampere
Intel
Foundry
Samsung
10 nm
Process Size
8 nm
Unknown
Transistors
12 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
