NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameSunGN20-E3 GA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date16 November 2012 (11 years old)4 January 2021 (3 years old)
Current price$338 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3843840
Core clock speed620 MHzno data
Boost clock speed825 MHz1283 MHz
Number of transistors690 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rate16.50153.8
Floating-point performance528.0 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8590M and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q 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 sizemedium sizedlarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s264.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 16 November 2012 4 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

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