GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking481not rated
Place by popularity34not in top-100
Power efficiency41.34no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVegaGA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 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 cores5123840
Core clock speedno data817 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1282 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data153.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.846 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data120
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
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 data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

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