NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1282MHz vs 1180MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +365%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 Mobile

2.115 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 460 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1180 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

3840

Shading Units

896

120

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.88 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.08 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.115 TFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.115 TFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

132.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Baffin

-

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

3 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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