NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 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 4060

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

6694 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

161 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

77 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

113 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

61 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

3124.65 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

101567 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

99687 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1925 MHz

113% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2075 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

150% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

123% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

123% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

5888

53% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

184

53% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2023 May

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 4060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.