NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2021
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
817 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1875 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
6GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
192bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
360.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
30
28
Shading Units
3840
3584
TMUs
120
112
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
120
112
RT Cores
30
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA106
GA104
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
12 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
392 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GA104-150-A1

Board Design

TDP
60W
170W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
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8,935
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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4,231