NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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
5925 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
10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
80 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
112 FPS
24 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
61 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
3522.98 points
52% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
104383 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
98514 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
38% slightly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
22% slightly higher boost clock speed
1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
384 GB/s
6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
45 W
277% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
22% slightly higher pixel rate
69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
31% slightly higher texture rate
151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
7% slightly more shading units
3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
7% slightly more texture mapping units
104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
84th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 5060 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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