GeForce MX250 and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison

GeForce MX250

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17S-G2

GA104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

February 2019

September 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1582 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1518 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

10/25 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

24.91

199.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

15 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3