NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
930 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
76
28
Shading Units
9728
3584
TMUs
304
112
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
304
112
RT Cores
76
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
64 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
163.0 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
442.3 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
28.31 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.31 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
442.3 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD103
GA104
GPU Variant
GN21-X11
GA104-150-A1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
4 nm
8 nm
Transistors
45.9 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
379 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
170W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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
8.9
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
8,935
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
4,231