NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 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 RTX 4080

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

19480 points

329% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

480 FPS

368 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

226 FPS

169 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

334 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

183 FPS

139 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

8733.11 points

271% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

241464 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

217807 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

2025 MHz

125% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2375 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

16 GiB

167% significantly more memory

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

678.4 GB/s

101% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

424% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

233% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

344% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

344% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

10240

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

320

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 4080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.