NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2020
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
975 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1185 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
30
28
Shading Units
1920
3584
TMUs
120
112
ROPs
48
48
Tensor Cores
240
112
RT Cores
30
28
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.88 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
142.2 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.101 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.550 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
142.2 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
GA106
GPU Variant
N18E-G1
GA106-302-A1
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
65W
170W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
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
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.