NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1695MHz vs 1425MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +201%

32.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

10.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +163%

21684

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

8220

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +193%

7828

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

2664

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +169%

722

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

268

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +136%

170

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +129%

170

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +20%

180

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

150

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

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GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1335 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

3840

304

TMUs

120

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

120

76

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

32.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

515.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

60-115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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