NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

14473 points

174% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

355 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

182 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

253 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

145 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

7059.26 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

181715 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

172409 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1335 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

4% 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

360 GB/s

576 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

158% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

9728

171% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

304

171% 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

98th 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 vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a slightly 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 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 4090 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 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 4090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060.