NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
5934 points
12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
150 FPS
24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
75 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
103 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
57 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
3004.43 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
122041 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
111833 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
84673 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
102733 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
96388 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
18% slightly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed
1560 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

360 GB/s
448 GB/s
24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
115 W
47% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
25% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
25% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
5120
42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
160
42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
80
66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
83rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop.

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