NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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 860M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

681% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2188% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

785% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

700% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

570% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

657% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

763% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1020 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

319% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

294% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

294% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

418% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

499% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

318th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 860M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 860M 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 860M.