GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs Radeon R3 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated158
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBeemaGN20-E3 GA106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)4 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores1283840
Core clock speed267 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz1702 MHz
Number of transistors930 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate4.800171.0
Floating-point performance153.6 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R3 Graphics and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

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 Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared14000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 4 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 115 Watt

R3 Graphics has 666.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R3 Graphics and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
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