NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

6% slightly better overall score

48 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

123 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

Identical

60 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

82 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

46 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce RTX 3060 and the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24

0.36% slightly higher Blender score

2436.56

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213

0.51% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

98709

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

92420

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

71210

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89470

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

83858

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84353

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

79289

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

5.97 GiB

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

360 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

80 W

112% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

10.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

3840

7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 549

46th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

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 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 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 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 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 3060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.