GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs Radeon R5 (Carrizo)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking918not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.66no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCarrizoAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 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 cores2563072
Core clock speedno data1140 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1470 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data141.1
Floating-point processing powerno data9.032 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data96
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 35 Watt

R5 (Carrizo) has 191.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Carrizo) and GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Carrizo)
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