GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs RTX 3060 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking168not rated
Place by popularity68not in top-100
Power efficiency27.91no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA106AD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38407424
Core clock speed900 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1425 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate171.0313.2
Floating-point processing power10.94 TFLOPS20.04 TFLOPS
ROPs4880
TMUs120232
Tensor Cores120232
Ray Tracing Cores3058

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 4080 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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