NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| GA106 | GPU Name | GA104 |
| GA106-300-A1 | Model number | GA104-770-A1 |
| Ampere | Architecture | Ampere |
| Samsung | Foundry | Samsung |
| 8 nm | Process Size | 8 nm |
| 13,250 million | Transistors | 17,400 million |
| 276 mm² | Die Size | 392 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Jan 12th, 2021 | Release Date | Jan 12th, 2021 |
| GeForce 30 | Family | GeForce 30 Mobile |
| Active | Production | Active |
| Feb 25th, 2021 | Availability | Feb 2nd, 2021 |
| GeForce 20 | Predecessor | GeForce 20 Mobile |
| PCIe 4.0 x16 | Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
Memory
| 12 GB | Memory Size | 8 GB |
| GDDR6 | Memory Type | GDDR6 |
| 192 bit | Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| 360.0 GB/s | Bandwidth | 384.0 GB/s |
Performance
| 85.30 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 103.2 GPixel/s |
| 199.0 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 206.4 GTexel/s |
| 12.74 TFLOPS (1:1) | FP16 (half) performance | 13.21 TFLOPS (1:1) |
| 12.74 TFLOPS | FP32 (float) performance | 13.21 TFLOPS |
| 199.0 GFLOPS (1:64) | FP64 (double) performance | 206.4 GFLOPS (1:64) |
Clock Speeds
| 1320 MHz | Base Clock | 780 MHz |
| 1777 MHz | Boost Clock | 1290 MHz |
| 1875 MHz 15 Gbps effective | Memory Clock | 1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective |
Render Config
| 3584 | Shading Units | 5120 |
| 112 | TMUs | 160 |
| 48 | ROPs | 80 |
| 28 | RT Cores | 40 |
| 128 KB (per SM) | L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) |
| 3 MB | L2 Cache | 4 MB |
| 28 | SM Count | 40 |
| 112 | Tensor Cores | 160 |
Board Design
| 170 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | 80 W |
| 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort | Display Connectors | No outputs |
| 1x 12-pin | Power Connectors | None |
API support
| 12 Ultimate (12_2) | DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| 4.6 | OpenGL | 4.6 |
| 3.0 | OpenCL | 3.0 |
| 1.2 | Vulkan | 1.2 |
| 6.6 | Shader Model | 6.6 |
| 8.6 | CUDA | 8.6 |