GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Radeon Pro VII

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking158not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.80no data
Power efficiency9.22no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 20GA106
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 May 2020 (4 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,899 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores38403840
Core clock speed1400 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHz1282 MHz
Number of transistors13,230 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate408.0153.8
Floating-point processing power13.06 TFLOPS9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs240120
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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length305 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/s288.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 May 2020 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 60 Watt

Pro VII has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon Pro VII is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Pro VII
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