GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking53not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.71no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA103SAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date25 January 2022 (2 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74243072
Core clock speed810 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1260 MHz1470 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate292.3141.1
Floating-point processing power18.71 TFLOPS9.032 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs23296
Tensor Cores23296
Ray Tracing Cores5824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2022 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 3080 Ti Mobile has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 228.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile and GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile
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