NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
1339% significantly better overall score
315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
104 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
73 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
5101% significantly higher Blender score
45.23 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points
1653% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
5629 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points
1456% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5938 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points
1267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5207 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
1284% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6089 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
1473% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
1029 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
51% significantly higher boost clock speed
1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
1997% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
33 W
142% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
660% significantly higher pixel rate
8.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
851% significantly higher texture rate
17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
900% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
650% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
499% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
371st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce 840M in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce 840M.

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