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GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs RTX 3070

GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3070
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
GA104

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 5 months older RTX RTX 3070 that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
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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 3070 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 3070
  • Performs better (up to 39%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 67 FPS
  • 39% higher maximum theoretical performance (20.3 vs 14.6 TFLOPS)
  • Features 88 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
  • Achieves 29% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (126K vs 97K)
  • Has 92% more shading units (5888 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
vs
RTX 3070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
147
99
86
61
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
168
143
100
54
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
244
194
137
77
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
132
121
96
54
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
97
80
62
35
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
121
113
85
52
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
89
74
56
31
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
106
94
59
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
165
153
113
60
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 141
1080p Ultra 92 119
1440p Ultra 67 88
4K Ultra 37 50
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 3070 +39%
14152
Time Spy 10397 13644
Solar Bay 45002 64452
Port Royal 5819 8312
Fire Strike 26481 34056
Wild Life Extreme 19820 28488
Night Raid 98330 122159
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 3070 +29%
126195
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 161.6 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 117.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 5.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 8.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 550.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 17613.1 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 +7%
10306
RTX 3070
9652

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 Laptop
17346
RTX 3070 +27%
22079
G2D Mark 731 1005
DirectX 11 155 FPS 183 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 11007 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 22366 & 38662 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 Laptop
3293.54
RTX 3070 +2%
3356.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 4321 & 4796 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 3070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-11-15 (mit)Cinebench 20249652
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
17683
RTX 3070 +12%
19789
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 Laptop
30738
RTX 3070 +7%
33013
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 Laptop +9%
13612
RTX 3070
12443
Image Classification (SP) 7421 7624
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 23420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 17898
Face Detection (HP) 35464 40535
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 83624
Text Classification (SP) 3086 2724
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 4481
Object Detection (SP) 8644 10304
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 30418
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 180089
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and RTX 3070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 October 22, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) - $499
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) GA104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#43rd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1725 MHz
Shading Units 3072 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 46
Tensor Cores 96 184
Ray-tracing Cores 24 46
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 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 317 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 Laptop
9-14.6 TFLOPS
RTX 3070 +39%
20.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 43.37 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4060 Laptop
256 GB/s
RTX 3070 +75%
448 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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