NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs 24-Core M1 Max
            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
            
                $329
            
        
    
            24-Core M1 Max
            
                
            
        
    | 3584 Shaders 12GB GDDR6 1777MHz | 3072 Shaders Shared Memory 1278MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 407.6 TOPS INT4 Tensor Sparse | Peak AI Performance 7.85 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 12.74 TFLOPS | FP32 7.85 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 12.74 TFLOPS | FP16 7.85 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 1.9-Slots | Form Factor iGPU - | 
| TDP 170W | TDP Shared | 
| Power Connectors - - 1x 12-Pin - | - - - - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | |
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 96,465 32% | GB5 OpenCL 50,960 17% | 
| GB5 CUDA 99,110 28% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal 54,840 30% | 
| GB5 Vulkan 75,845 37% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 305 40% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal 155 26% | 
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                                            407.6 TOPS
                                         
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                                            7.85 TFLOPS
                                         
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate)
                                            
                                         
                                            101.9 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                 Tensor (FP16 Accumulate) Sparse
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            200 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            50.95 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            12.74 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            25.48 TFLOPS
                                            
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                                            INT4
                                         
                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
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                                            407.6 TOPS
                                            
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                                            101.9 TOPS
                                            
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                                            203.8 TOPS
                                            
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                                            6.37 TOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
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                                            19.2 TOPS
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| Pixel
                                            Fillrate 
                                            85.296 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
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                                            122.688 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            199.024 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            245.376 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerApple | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerApple | 
| ArchitectureAmpere | ArchitectureApple Gen 4 | 
| FamilyGeForce 30 | FamilyM Series | 
| Codename NV176 GA106 Variant GA106-300-A1 | Codename G13C M1 Max - - | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Laptop | 
| Release Date 2/25/2021 | Release Date 10/26/2021 | 
| Foundry Samsung - | - - - | 
| Fabrication Node 8N - | - - - | 
| Die Size 276 mm² - | - - - | 
| Transistor Count 13.3 Billion - | - - | 
| Transistor Density 48.01M/mm² - | - - - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form iGPU | 
| Shading Units 3584 Shaders - | Shading Units 3072 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 112 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 192 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 48 ROPs | Render Output Units 96 ROPs | 
| Tensor Cores 112 T-Cores | - - | 
| Ray-Tracing Cores 28 RT-Cores | - - | 
| Streaming Multiprocessors 28 SMs | - - | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - | Execution Units 384 EUs | 
| Graphics Processing Clusters 3 GPCs | Graphics Processing Clusters 24 GPCs | 
| - - 1320MHz Base 1777MHz | - - - 1278MHz | 
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| L1 64KB/SM Tex 128KB/SM - - | L1 - - - Unknown | 
| L2 3MB Shared | L2 Unknown | 
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| 12GB GDDR6 - | Shared Memory - - | 
| Bus Width 192Bit | - | 
| Clock 1875MHz Transfer Rate 15GT/s Bandwidth 360GB/s | - - - - - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - | 
| TDP 170W | TDP Shared | 
| Temp 93°C Max | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - No Ports | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 6016x3384 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - - - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 4 | Multi Monitor Support 4 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | - - | 
| Model NVENC 7 | Model 2x Apple Media Engine 2 | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - ProRes ProRes Raw | 
| Model NVDEC 5 | Model Apple Media Engine 2 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 VP8 VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - ProRes ProRes Raw | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | - - - - | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | - - - - - - | 
| Shader Model 6.6 CUDA 8.6 - - PureVideo HD VP11 VDPAU Feature Set K | - - - - - - - - - - | 
| - - - 2x Fans | Not a Card - - - | 
| Power Connectors - - - - - 1x 12-Pin - | - - - - - - - - | 
| Slots Required 1.9 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | - - - - - - | 
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| Height 112 mm (4.41 in) Width 242 mm (9.53 in) Depth 38 mm (1.5 in) | - - - - - - | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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