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

GeForce 940MX

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GTR-B/S

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2016

January 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

1122 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 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)

23 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

23.83

153.8

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

40.1 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

1.2

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus