NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 358.3x more texture fill rate: 153.8 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 6% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8234 vs 7765
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 8 August 2017
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s vs 429.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 225 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8234 vs 7765

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

  • Around 72% higher core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1677 MHz vs 1282 MHz
  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3840
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1406 MHz vs 817 MHz
Boost clock speed 1677 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Pipelines 4096 vs 3840
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8234
7765
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
PassMark - G3D Mark 13387
PassMark - G2D Mark 589
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 8234 7765

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 5.0
Code name GA106 Vega 10
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 8 August 2017
Place in performance rating 130 256
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz 1677 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 1406 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 4096
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s 429.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million
Floating-point performance 13,738 gflops

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 2x 8-pin
Length 267 mm

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready