GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N18E-G1 MAX-Q TU106
GA104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2019
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1185 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
975 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
142.2
199.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
11000 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3
VR Ready
+
-