NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

11108 points

144% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

285 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

140 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

193 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

110 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

5482.15 points

133% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

159842 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

145828 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1290 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

432 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

37% slightly lower TDP

110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

125% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

7424

93% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

232

93% significantly 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

111th of 586

34th 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

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 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a significantly 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. 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 slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 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 4080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.