AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1301MHz vs 1282MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

9.326 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +5%

9.846 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2018

Release Date

Jan 2021

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1301 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3840

224

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

83.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

291.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

18.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

9.326 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

582.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GA106

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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