GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs Radeon Vega 9 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated168
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Power efficiencyno data27.91
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 cores5763840
Core clock speed300 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1300 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate46.80171.0
Floating-point processing power1.498 TFLOPS10.94 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs36120
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

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 Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 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 80 Watt

Vega 9 Mobile has 433.3% lower power consumption.

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

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 9 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Vega 9 Mobile
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