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GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs 3060 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3060 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 Mobile over RTX 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 22% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 55 FPS
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
  • Has 31% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 256 GB/s
  • Has 25% more shading units (3840 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
vs
RTX 3060 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
108
64
55
37
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
120
95
68
35
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
173
125
89
44
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
88
78
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
62
51
36
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
76
69
49
30
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
58
45
33
21
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
63
56
35
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
101
94
66
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 94
1080p Ultra 92 75
1440p Ultra 67 55
4K Ultra 37 30
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 10397 8318
Solar Bay 45002 36291
Port Royal 5819 4708
Fire Strike 26481 20181
Wild Life Extreme 19820 16477
Night Raid 98330 72311
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 153.5 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 90 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 4.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 5.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 385.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 12770 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 Laptop +32%
17346
RTX 3060 Laptop
13108
G2D Mark 731 586
DirectX 11 155 FPS 109 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 5621 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 22366 & 21345 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop +42%
3293.54
RTX 3060 Laptop
2325.57
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4321 & 3160 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Geekbench 6 OpenCL115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)Geekbench 6 OpenCL101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)Geekbench 6 OpenCL107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306
Add View all (6)
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)Geekbench 6 OpenCL95620
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)Geekbench 6 OpenCL95620
Add View all (2)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4060 Laptop +23%
17683
RTX 3060 Laptop
14362
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 Laptop +19%
30738
RTX 3060 Laptop
25888
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 7421 6257
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 16583
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 12510
Face Detection (HP) 35464 29528
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 51349
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2685
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 3939
Object Detection (SP) 8644 7206
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 24343
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 113151
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and 3060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GA106 (GN20-E3)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6600M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12500H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (43rd and 66th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 816-1387 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1283-1703 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 3072 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 30
Tensor Cores 96 120
Ray-tracing Cores 24 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 71-114 GPixel/s 62-82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 154-204 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 Laptop +11%
9-14.6 TFLOPS
RTX 3060 Laptop
9.9-13.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 300 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 13.25 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 44.17 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4060 Laptop
256 GB/s
RTX 3060 Laptop +31%
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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