GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs 2080 Mobile
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
TU104 (N18E-G3)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 6 GB with 30 pipelines and 3840 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older RTX 2080 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 2944 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 8 nm process technology
- 39% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.1 vs 9.4 TFLOPS)
- Has 30% more shading units (3840 vs 2944)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
- Performs better (up to 19%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 18% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 65 vs 55 FPS
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Features 248 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (116K vs 94K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 108 64 55 37 |
119 73 64 45 |
| The Witcher 3 | 120 95 68 35 |
134 110 81 41 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 173 125 89 44 |
197 147 105 54 |
| Far Cry 6 | 88 78 64 34 |
103 91 74 39 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 62 51 36 18 |
74 59 45 25 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 76 69 49 30 |
90 82 57 37 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 58 45 33 21 |
69 54 42 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 63 56 35 16 |
80 68 40 20 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 101 94 66 32 |
120 110 80 43 |
| 1080p High | 94 | 110 |
| 1080p Ultra | 75 | 88 |
| 1440p Ultra | 55 | 65 |
| 4K Ultra | 30 | 36 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8318 | 10052 |
| Solar Bay | 36291 | 44509 |
| Port Royal | 4708 | 6007 |
| Fire Strike | 20181 | 25925 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 16477 | 20472 |
| Night Raid | 72311 | 96043 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 153.5 img/sec | 226 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 90 img/sec | 122.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.1 Gpixels/sec | 4.52 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.77 Gpixels/sec | 5.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.35 Gpixels/sec | 6.45 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.01 Gpixels/sec | 1.26 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 385.9 Gpixels/sec | 446.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 12770 FPS | 14128.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 586 | 804 |
| DirectX 11 | 109 FPS | 139 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 53 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5621 Ops/s | 6463 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 RTX 2080 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 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 16583 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 12510 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 29528 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 51349 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2685 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3939 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7206 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 24343 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 113151 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop and 2080 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 12, 2021 | January 29, 2019 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| GPU Codename | GA106 (GN20-E3) | TU104 (N18E-G3) |
| 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 9750H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (66th and 52nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 816-1387 MHz (configurable) | 1380 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1283-1703 MHz (configurable) | 1590 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3840 | 2944 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 120 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 30 | 46 |
| Tensor Cores | 120 | 368 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 30 | 46 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 62-82 GPixel/s | 102 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 154-204 GTexel/s | 293 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 | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 300 mm² | 545 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13.25 billion | 13.6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.17 MTr/mm² | 24.95 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000-14000 Mbps | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4 |
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