NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD FireStream 9370

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and AMD FireStream 9370 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2330.3x more texture fill rate: 153.8 GTexel/s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 3840 vs 1600
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13388 vs 2528
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 June 2010
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3840 vs 1600
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 225 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13388 vs 2528

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9370

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 763 vs 589
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 825 MHz vs 817 MHz
Memory clock speed 4600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 763 vs 589

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9370

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13388
2528
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
589
763
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD FireStream 9370
PassMark - G3D Mark 13388 2528
PassMark - G2D Mark 589 763
Geekbench - OpenCL 79058
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 339.841
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3898.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 27.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 155.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1167.569
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8237

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD FireStream 9370

Essentials

Architecture Ampere TeraScale 2
Code name GA106 Cypress
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 23 June 2010
Place in performance rating 130 129
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 1600
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s 66.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 2,154 million
Floating-point performance 2,640.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 267 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 147.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 4600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready