NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, 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 RTX 3070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

5980 points

31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

151 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

75 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

104 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

57 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

3004.43 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

122041 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

111833 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

84673 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

102733 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

96388 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1110 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

124.8 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

249.6 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

15.97 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

5120

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

82nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop 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 slightly 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 RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.