NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2023
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 40 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1455 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
76
Shading Units
3584
9728
TMUs
112
304
ROPs
48
112
Tensor Cores
112
304
RT Cores
28
76
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
163.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
442.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
28.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
28.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
442.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
AD103
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
GN21-X11
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
4 nm
Transistors
12 billion
45.9 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
379 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
80W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
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
8.9
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.