GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 3

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking779not rated
Place by popularity85not in top-100
Power efficiency13.61no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePicassoGA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 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 cores1923840
Core clock speed300 MHz817 MHz
Boost clock speed1001 MHz1282 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate12.01153.8
Floating-point processing power0.3844 TFLOPS9.846 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs12120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 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 Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data288.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

RX Vega 3 has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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