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GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs 3080 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E7)

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 3080 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 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 3080 Mobile over RTX 4060 Mobile
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 3080 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 13%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (21 vs 14.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 67 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
  • Achieves 31% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (128K vs 97K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (6144 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
vs
RTX 3080 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
132
87
77
53
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
151
126
90
48
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
221
172
120
66
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
115
107
85
47
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
85
72
55
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
104
97
70
46
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
82
67
51
29
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
91
80
51
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
144
131
96
49
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 125
1080p Ultra 92 104
1440p Ultra 67 77
4K Ultra 37 43
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
RTX 4060 Laptop
10212
RTX 3080 Laptop +13%
11539
Time Spy 10397 11989
Solar Bay 45002 50311
Port Royal 5819 7199
Fire Strike 26481 29057
Wild Life Extreme 19820 24744
Night Raid 98330 81862
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4060 Laptop
97986
RTX 3080 Laptop +31%
128827
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 211 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 123.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 5.78 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 8.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 6.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 543.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 17774.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
10306
RTX 3080 Laptop +14%
11720

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 731 625
DirectX 11 155 FPS 145 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 71 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 7049 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 22366 & 3515 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop +1%
3293.54
RTX 3080 Laptop
3245.42
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4321 & 897 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
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GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
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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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 Laptop +18%
13612
RTX 3080 Laptop
11487
Image Classification (SP) 7421 6773
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 19587
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 15553
Face Detection (HP) 35464 35885
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 82446
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2830
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 4019
Object Detection (SP) 8644 8380
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 28597
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 184715
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and 3080 Laptop

General

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-E7)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6800M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i9 12900H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (43rd and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 780-1350 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1245-1710 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 3072 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 48
Tensor Cores 96 192
Ray-tracing Cores 24 48
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 120-164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 239-328 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 Laptop
9-14.6 TFLOPS
RTX 3080 Laptop +44%
15.3-21 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 80-165 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 8-16 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
RTX 4060 Laptop
256 GB/s
RTX 3080 Laptop +75%
448 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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