AMD ROG Ally vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD ROG Ally and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD ROG Ally

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 75% higher boost clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 80 Watt
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
Launch date 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 80 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • 4.3x more texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
  • 15x more pipelines: 3840 vs 256
  • Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s vs 40.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 256
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD ROG Ally
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Name AMD ROG Ally NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD ROG Ally NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
Code name Phoenix GA106
Launch date 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating not rated 117
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2500 MHz 1425 MHz
Compute units 4
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 256 3840
Pixel fill rate 20.00 GPixel/s 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 40.00 GTexel/s 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 25390 million 12000 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 21 mm, 0.8 inches PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 280 mm, 11 inches
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type LPDDR5 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready