NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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 4090

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

33202 points

629% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

788 FPS

676 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

382 FPS

325 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

568 FPS

489 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

318 FPS

274 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

11723.75 points

398% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

318192 points

277% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

273214 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

2235 MHz

148% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2520 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

24 GiB

301% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

1010 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

462% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

607% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

654% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

654% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

16384

326% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

512

326% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

2nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 October

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 4090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 also has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.