GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q sales 3 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 4 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | |
| GPU code name | AD107 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 January 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 3072 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1140 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1470 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 141.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 9.032 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 96 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 24 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4060 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 | 8 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4060 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 | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.9 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q is Radeon RX 6600M.
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 4060 Max-Q according to our statistics.
