NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 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 965M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

354% significantly better overall score

1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

1493% significantly higher Blender score

147.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

612% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13861 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

460% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16496 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

432% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

398% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16599 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

944 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1150 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

60 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

85% significantly higher pixel rate

36.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

132% significantly higher texture rate

73.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

364% significantly better floating point performance

2.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

274% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

270th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2015 January

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 965M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 965M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has significantly more memory with 5.97 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 965M has a slightly lower TDP at 60 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 965M.