NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
7909 points
74% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
190 FPS
79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
95 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
137 FPS
59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
76 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
3588.48 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
109744 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
112405 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
1395 MHz
55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
0.47% slightly higher boost clock speed
1695 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
31% slightly higher memory bandwidth
256 GB/s

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
81.36 Gigapixels/s
18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
244.1 Gigatexels/s
42% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS
15.62 TFLOPS
42% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
4608
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
144
20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
57th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 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 4070 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.

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