GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Radeon R7 M270DX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking904not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameTopazGA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 June 2014 (11 years ago)12 January 2021 (5 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 cores3843840
Core clock speed900 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speed940 MHz1282 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rate22.56153.8
Floating-point processing power0.7219 TFLOPS9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs24120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30
L1 Cache96 KB3.8 MB
L2 Cache256 KB3 MB

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
InterfaceIGPPCIe 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D 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
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 June 2014 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX 3060 Max-Q has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M270DX and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

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