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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

1265% significantly better overall score

334 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

105 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

79 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

5101% significantly higher Blender score

45.23 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

1653% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5629 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

1456% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5938 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

1267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5207 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

1284% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6089 points

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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

370th of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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 our comparison, the GeForce 840M has a slightly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce 840M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the GeForce 840M.