NVIDIA GeForce 930M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930M 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 930M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1282MHz vs 941MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 930M
0.723 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+1261%
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
928 MHz
Base Clock
817 MHz
941 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
384
Shading Units
3840
24
TMUs
120
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.528 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
22.58 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
722.7 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
22.58 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
33W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
GA106
N16S-GM
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
Unknown
Transistors
12 billion
Unknown
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
