NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

14473 points

217% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

355 FPS

243 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

182 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

253 FPS

175 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

145 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

7059.26 points

200% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

181715 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

172409 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1335 MHz

48% 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

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

576 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

177% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

201% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

9728

153% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

304

153% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

20th of 597

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 4090 Laptop comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop at 120 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 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.