GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E5 GA104

AD106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

April 2024 (recently)

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1290 MHz

2460 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

22,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

237.4

236.2

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

17 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

272.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3