Radeon R9 M270 and GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M270

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

April 2014

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1500 Million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

153.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (FL 11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2