NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1777MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (35W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +41%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

9.032 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1470 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

96

28

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.56 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

141.1 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.032 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.032 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

141.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD107

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X4

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

Unknown

276 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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