GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs GTX 1080 Mobile
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 6 GB with 30 pipelines and 3840 shaders against the 4 years and 6 months older GTX 1080 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
- Performs slightly better (up to 18%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- 47% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.1 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
- Shows 17% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 55 vs 47 FPS
- Ray-tracing support with 30 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 108 64 55 37 |
97 60 49 30 |
| The Witcher 3 | 120 95 68 35 |
103 79 57 29 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 173 125 89 44 |
155 112 80 37 |
| Far Cry 6 | 88 78 64 34 |
81 71 56 29 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 62 51 36 18 |
56 42 30 17 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 76 69 49 30 |
66 56 39 28 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 58 45 33 21 |
51 41 28 16 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 63 56 35 16 |
53 49 28 13 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 101 94 66 32 |
88 81 54 30 |
| 1080p High | 94 | 83 |
| 1080p Ultra | 75 | 66 |
| 1440p Ultra | 55 | 47 |
| 4K Ultra | 30 | 25 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8318 | 7137 |
| Solar Bay | 36291 | 19248 |
| Port Royal | 4708 | 1558 |
| Fire Strike | 20181 | 21459 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 16477 | 13912 |
| Night Raid | 72311 | 69008 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 153.5 img/sec | 151.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 90 img/sec | 71.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.1 Gpixels/sec | 2.51 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.77 Gpixels/sec | 3.71 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.35 Gpixels/sec | 4.63 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.01 Gpixels/sec | 0.29 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 385.9 Gpixels/sec | 214.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 12770 FPS | 5989.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 586 | 731 |
| DirectX 11 | 109 FPS | 102 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 42 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5621 Ops/s | 5903 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 95620 |
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 95620 |
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6257 | 1863 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 16583 | 3814 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 12510 | 9767 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 29528 | 6946 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 51349 | 49863 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2685 | 1259 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3939 | 1365 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7206 | 2518 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 24343 | 13518 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 113151 | 99268 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop and GTX 1080 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 12, 2021 | August 15, 2016 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | GA106 (GN20-E3) | GP104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - Radeon RX 6600M | - |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12500H or above | - Intel Core i7 8750H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (66th and 102nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 816-1387 MHz (configurable) | 1556 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1283-1703 MHz (configurable) | 1733 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3840 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 120 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 30 | 20 |
| Tensor Cores | 120 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 30 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 62-82 GPixel/s | 111 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 154-204 GTexel/s | 277 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-140 W (configurable) | 150 W |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 300 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13.25 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.17 MTr/mm² | 22.93 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1251 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000-14000 Mbps | 10008 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4 |
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