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GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs RTX 3060

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

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX RTX 3060 12 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 over RTX 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 13%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 12% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 60 FPS
  • 15% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 41% higher memory bandwidth: 360 vs 256 GB/s

Gaming Performance

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

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
112
68
60
39
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
122
100
74
39
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
181
137
99
48
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
95
85
67
37
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
65
57
40
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
80
74
53
31
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
62
50
37
20
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
68
64
38
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
109
98
70
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 99
1080p Ultra 92 81
1440p Ultra 67 60
4K Ultra 37 32
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 +13%
10212
RTX 3060
9001
Time Spy 10397 8754
Solar Bay 45002 41158
Port Royal 5819 5145
Fire Strike 26481 22304
Wild Life Extreme 19820 17728
Night Raid 98330 97159
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 +7%
97986
RTX 3060
91603
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 149.6 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 91 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 372.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 12226.3 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 +30%
10306
RTX 3060
7952

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 Laptop +4%
17346
RTX 3060
16710
G2D Mark 731 965
DirectX 11 155 FPS 127 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 68 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 8231 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 22366 & 46248 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop +44%
3293.54
RTX 3060
2288.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4321 & 6537 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 3060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-07 (tach)Cinebench 20247952
Add View all (1)

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 +17%
17683
RTX 3060
15123
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 Laptop +18%
30738
RTX 3060
25942
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 Laptop +31%
13612
RTX 3060
10356
Image Classification (SP) 7421 6645
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 15338
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 14283
Face Detection (HP) 35464 28862
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 61313
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2463
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 3793
Object Detection (SP) 8644 7712
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 25461
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 123233
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and RTX 3060

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) - $329
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GA106
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6700 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12600K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#43rd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#58th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 3072 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 28
Tensor Cores 96 112
Ray-tracing Cores 24 28
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 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 Laptop +15%
9-14.6 TFLOPS
RTX 3060
12.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 170 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1875 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 15000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4060 Laptop
256 GB/s
RTX 3060 +41%
360 GB/s

API

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

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