GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs 4060 Laptop
VS
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile with 26 pipelines and 3328 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 4060 Mobile that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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 5060 Laptop
- Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 78 vs 67 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 256 GB/s
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 137 85 77 55 |
120 77 66 44 |
| The Witcher 3 | 153 127 93 51 |
141 112 79 42 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 228 173 120 67 |
205 153 110 54 |
| Far Cry 6 | 116 106 85 50 |
103 92 75 43 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 87 73 53 31 |
74 62 45 25 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 108 100 72 48 |
95 85 59 37 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 67 52 28 |
74 60 42 23 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 95 82 49 22 |
82 72 42 21 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 144 130 97 53 |
127 116 83 43 |
| 1080p High | 128 | 113 |
| 1080p Ultra | 105 | 92 |
| 1440p Ultra | 78 | 67 |
| 4K Ultra | 45 | 37 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12018 | 10397 |
| Solar Bay | 53003 | 45002 |
| Port Royal | 7458 | 5819 |
| Fire Strike | 31583 | 26481 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 21605 | 19820 |
| Night Raid | 114257 | 98330 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 190.8 img/sec | 142.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 115.9 img/sec | 103.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.17 Gpixels/sec | 3.83 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.28 Gpixels/sec | 4.93 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.1 Gpixels/sec | 4.63 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.32 Gpixels/sec | 1.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 523.3 Gpixels/sec | 430.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 16169.3 FPS | 13519.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 840 | 731 |
| DirectX 11 | 162 FPS | 155 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 79 FPS | 72 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6144 Ops/s | 6789 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 132783 |
| 📘 2026-04-10 (lnwponlawat) | Steel Nomad Light | 13919 |
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 |
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) | 7525 | 7421 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 23623 | 19041 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19973 | 20913 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 41164 | 35464 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 77589 | 67110 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2880 | 3086 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5811 | 4740 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9966 | 8644 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 37206 | 32456 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 136961 | 142039 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and 4060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 14, 2025 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GB206 | AD107 (GN21-X4) |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (20th and 43rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 952-1455 MHz (configurable) | 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) | 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 3328 | 3072 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 104 | 96 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 26 | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | 104 | 96 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 26 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-120 GPixel/s | 71-114 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 151-260 GTexel/s | 141-228 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 45-115 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 181 mm² | 156 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 21.9 billion | 18.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.99 MTr/mm² | 121.15 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 89°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 24000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12.0 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4a |
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