NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1480MHz vs 1425MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +188%

10.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +147%

8220

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

3320

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +681%

2664

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

341

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +339%

268

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

61

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1063 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP106

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GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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