NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Nov 2014
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Crystal System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
817 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
174.7GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
—
Shading Units
3840
1024
TMUs
120
64
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
120
—
RT Cores
30
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
3 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
Pitcairn
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
12 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
—
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Board Design
TDP
60W
80W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.