GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon M6

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated165
Place by popularitynot in top-10090
Power efficiencyno data28.36
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM6GA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 December 2001 (22 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years 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 cores23840
Core clock speed2 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed166 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data171.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.94 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 MB6 GB
Memory bus width32 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXDDR12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2001 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 Mobile has an age advantage of 19 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon M6 and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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