GeForce 940M and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2015

January 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

153.8

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus