NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q sales 4 January 2021. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 60 Watt.
We have no data on GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | GN20-E3 GA106 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 January 2021 (3 years old) |
Technical specs
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3840 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1283 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 13,250 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 153.8 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory bandwidth | 264.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q is Radeon RX 6700M.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q according to our statistics.
