NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1425MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +374%

10.94 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1425 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

3840

Shading Units

1280

120

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

10.94 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.94 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

171.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

60-115W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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