NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
930 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
76
30
Shading Units
9728
3840
TMUs
304
120
ROPs
112
48
Tensor Cores
304
120
RT Cores
76
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
64 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
163.0 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
442.3 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
28.31 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
28.31 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
442.3 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD103
GA106
GPU Variant
GN21-X11
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Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
4 nm
8 nm
Transistors
45.9 billion
12 billion
Die Size
379 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
60W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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
8.9
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.