NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 100W vs Apple 14-Core M3 Pro Full Specs

Summary

3,840 Shaders 1.6GHz	1,792 Shaders 1.38GHz
6GB GDDR6336GB/s placeholder	Shared Memory153.6GB/sLPDDR5
Peak·FP32·FP16 12.33 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 4.95 TFLOPS
Form Factor Soldered	Form Factor iGPU
TDP 100W	TDP Shared

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

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 100W394.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x79.75

14-Core M3 Pro4.95 TFLOPSFP16

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1605MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1380MHz UC·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 394.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 4.95 TFLOPSFP16
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 12.33 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 -
FP32 12.33 TFLOPS	FP32 4.95 TFLOPS
FP64 192.6 GFLOPS	-
Tensor INT4 197.2 TOPS	Tensor INT4 -
Tensor INT8 98.61 TOPS	-
Ray 18.59 TOPS	Ray -
Pixel Rate 77 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 77.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 192.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 154.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 3,840 Shaders	Shaders 1,792 Shaders
TMUs 120 TMUs	TMUs 112 TMUs
ROPs 48 ROPs	ROPs 56 ROPs
Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores	Tensor Cores -
RT Cores 30 RT-Cores	RT Cores 14 RT-Cores
SMs 30 SMs	EUs 224 EUs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.27GHz	Base Clock -
Boost Clock 1.6GHz	Boost Clock 1.38GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 3.1MB shared

L2 Cache 4.1MB shared

Memory

6GB GDDR6 placeholder	Shared MemoryLPDDR5
Memory Bus 192-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 14GT/s	Memory Speed 6.4GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 336GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 153.6GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP 100W

TDP Shared

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 2
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP -

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Encoder Model Apple Media Engine 3

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Decoder Model Apple Media Engine 3

Card

Form Factor Soldered

Form Factor iGPU

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer Apple
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer Apple
Architecture Ampere	Architecture Apple Gen 6
Family GeForce 30	Family M Series
Branding	Branding
Codename NV176	Codename G15S
Chip Variant GA106-150-KA-A1	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Feb 25, 2021	Release Date Oct 30, 2023

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node N3B
Die Size 276mm²	Die Size 219mm²
Transistor Count 13.3 Billion	Transistor Count 37 Billion
Transistor Density 48.01 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 169 MTr/mm²

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Used In

CPUs -	CPUs M3 Pro (11C14G)
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