NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, 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 GTX 780

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

152% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

656% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

446% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

340% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

88% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

6 GiB

0.49% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

212% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

163% significantly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

66% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

192

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 780 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 780 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has slightly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 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 GTX 780.