GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs 3070 Laptop
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E5)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3070 Mobile that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 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 4060 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
- Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
- Features 64 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 21% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (118K vs 97K)
- Has 67% more shading units (5120 vs 3072)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 120 77 66 44 |
124 78 67 49 |
| The Witcher 3 | 141 112 79 42 |
137 112 82 43 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 205 153 110 54 |
199 149 109 57 |
| Far Cry 6 | 103 92 75 43 |
107 96 75 41 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 62 45 25 |
78 65 47 24 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 95 85 59 37 |
93 84 59 42 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 74 60 42 23 |
73 58 45 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 82 72 42 21 |
80 71 44 18 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 127 116 83 43 |
127 114 84 44 |
| 1080p High | 113 | 113 |
| 1080p Ultra | 92 | 92 |
| 1440p Ultra | 67 | 68 |
| 4K Ultra | 37 | 38 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10397 | 10477 |
| Solar Bay | 45002 | 45198 |
| Port Royal | 5819 | 6247 |
| Fire Strike | 26481 | 26725 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19820 | 21132 |
| Night Raid | 98330 | 82499 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 142.7 img/sec | 170.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 103.7 img/sec | 113.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.83 Gpixels/sec | 5.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.93 Gpixels/sec | 7.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.63 Gpixels/sec | 6.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.27 Gpixels/sec | 1.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 430.4 Gpixels/sec | 467 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13519.5 FPS | 15131.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 731 | 626 |
| DirectX 11 | 155 FPS | 137 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 72 FPS | 62 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6789 Ops/s | 6642 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 115610 |
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Cinebench 2024 | 10216 |
| 📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 101184 |
| 📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 107583 |
| 📘 2025-11-17 (kritan) | Cinebench 2024 | 10306 |
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 123169 |
| 📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517) | Cinebench 2024 | 10455 |
| 📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 122261 |
| 📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517) | Steel Nomad Light | 12032 |
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) | 7421 | 6969 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 19041 | 17142 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 20913 | 16426 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 35464 | 31628 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 67110 | 74413 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3086 | 2522 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4740 | 3639 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8644 | 9002 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 32456 | 27790 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 142039 | 160005 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and 3070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 22, 2023 | January 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | AD107 (GN21-X4) | GA104 (GN20-E5) |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 6700M |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above | - Intel Core i7 12700H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (43rd and 50th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) | 780-1215 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) | 1290-1620 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 96 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 24 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 24 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 71-114 GPixel/s | 103-130 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 141-228 GTexel/s | 206-259 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-140 W (configurable) | 80-150 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 156 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 18.9 billion | 17.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.15 MTr/mm² | 44.39 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1500-1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 12000-14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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