NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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 960M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

664% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

99 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

78 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

1585% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

735% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

654% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

572% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

628% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

768% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1097 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

263% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

263% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

626% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 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

111th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2015 March

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

4.5

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.