M4 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

M4

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Rage 4 (1998−1999)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

M4

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

January 2021

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

-

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

250 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

8 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

-

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

199.0

Memory type

-

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

-

12 GB

Memory bus width

-

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

6.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2