Apple 10-Core M3 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 100W Full Specs

Summary

1,280 Shaders 1.34GHz	3,840 Shaders 1.6GHz
Shared Memory102.4GB/sLPDDR5	6GB GDDR6336GB/s placeholder
Peak·FP32·FP16 3.42 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 12.33 TFLOPS
Form Factor iGPU	Form Factor Soldered
TDP Shared	TDP 100W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

10-Core M33.42 TFLOPSFP16

x1

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 100W394.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x115.16

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1338MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1605MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 3.42 TFLOPSFP16	Peak OPS 394.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP16-16 49.31 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 98.61 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 24.65 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 49.31 TFLOPS
-	BF16 12.33 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 24.65 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 49.31 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 12.33 TFLOPS
FP32 3.42 TFLOPS	FP32 12.33 TFLOPS
-	FP64 192.6 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 -	Tensor INT4 197.2 TOPS
-	Tensor INT8 98.61 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 18.59 TOPS
Pixel Rate 53.5 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 77 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 107 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 192.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 1,280 Shaders	Shaders 3,840 Shaders
TMUs 80 TMUs	TMUs 120 TMUs
ROPs 40 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores
RT Cores 10 RT-Cores	RT Cores 30 RT-Cores
EUs 160 EUs	SMs 30 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.27GHz
Boost Clock 1.34GHz	Boost Clock 1.6GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 3.1MB shared

Memory

Shared MemoryLPDDR5	6GB GDDR6 placeholder
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 6.4GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 102.4GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 336GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP Shared

TDP 100W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 1	Multi-Monitor 3
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor iGPU

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer Apple	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer Apple	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Apple Gen 6	Architecture Ampere
Family M Series	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename G15G	Codename NV176
Chip Variant -	Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Oct 30, 2023	Release Date Feb 25, 2021

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N3B	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 153mm²	Die Size 276mm²
Transistor Count 25 Billion	Transistor Count 13.3 Billion
Transistor Density 164 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs M3 (8C10G)	CPUs -
Laptops MacBook Pro 14(M3, Late 2023)	Laptops Alienware X15(R2, Early 2022)Blade 14(Early 2022)Legion Slim 7(Gen 6, Early 2021) Show 1 more
All-in-Ones iMac 24(M3, Four Ports, Late 2023)	All-in-Ones -

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