NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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: 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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 120 Watt

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 1 June 2018
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 817 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1301 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 817 MHz
Boost clock speed	1301 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 8913

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8913

8917

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

8913

8917

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark	13355
PassMark - G2D Mark	590
Geekbench - OpenCL	78652
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	325.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3461.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	26.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	152.172
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	979.608
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8913	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8913	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8230

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA106	Vega 10
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	1 June 2018
Place in performance rating	144	141
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1282 MHz	1301 MHz
Core clock speed	817 MHz	1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 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
Pixel fill rate	61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready