NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps 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 MX450 30.5W 8Gbps 's Advantages

Lower TDP (31W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1282MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps

2.285 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +330%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps

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GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1035 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3840

56

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

71.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

4.570 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

2.285 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

71.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

31W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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