NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2021
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 30 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
817 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1282 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
30
Shading Units
3584
3840
TMUs
112
120
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
112
120
RT Cores
28
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
61.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
153.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
9.846 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
153.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GA106
GPU Variant
GA106-302-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
12 billion
12 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
170W
60W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
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
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6