NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4886 points

7% slightly better overall score

4552 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

105 FPS

112 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

72 FPS

79 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

54 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

2352.59 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

96024 points

98709 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points

92420 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

1703 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

80 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

46% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

3840

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 597

110th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2070 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 2070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2070 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2070 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.