GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q vs Radeon 8060S

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking100not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency58.29no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.5 (2024−2025)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameStrix HaloGA104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2025 (less than a year ago)12 January 2021 (4 years 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 cores25605120
Core clock speed1295 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speed2335 MHz1290 MHz
Number of transistors34,000 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate373.6206.4
Floating-point processing power11.96 TFLOPS13.21 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs160160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Cores4040
L1 Cacheno data5 MB
L2 Cache8 MB4 MB
L3 Cache64 MBno data

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 5.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2025 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 4 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 80 Watt

Radeon 8060S has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 45.5% lower power consumption.

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