GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs Quadro FX 3800M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking976not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.05no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG92AD107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date14 August 2008 (16 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 cores1283072
Core clock speed675 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1470 MHz
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate43.20141.1
Floating-point processing power0.4224 TFLOPS9.032 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs6496
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s224.0 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2008 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4060 Max-Q has an age advantage of 14 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1525% more advanced lithography process, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3800M and GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 3800M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
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