GeForce RTX 4060 vs 3070 Laptop

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4060 with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 5 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

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 Mobile over RTX 4060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
  • Features 64 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 65% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 272 GB/s
  • Has 67% more shading units (5120 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
128
78
66
47
124
78
67
49
The Witcher 3
143
117
82
44
137
112
82
43
Counter-Strike 2
208
157
111
58
199
149
109
57
Far Cry 6
105
98
76
45
107
96
75
41
Hogwarts Legacy
78
65
47
26
78
65
47
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
98
90
64
43
93
84
59
42
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
45
27
73
58
45
24
Cyberpunk 2077
82
75
43
22
80
71
44
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
128
119
85
46
127
114
84
44
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 113
1080p Ultra 96 92
1440p Ultra 69 68
4K Ultra 40 38
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 +5%
10683
Time Spy 10615 10477
Solar Bay 49340 45198
Port Royal 6054 6247
Fire Strike 28540 26725
Wild Life Extreme 20610 21132
Night Raid 121368 82499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
106633
118499
Background Blur 186.9 img/sec 170.3 img/sec
Face Detection 112.7 img/sec 113.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.92 Gpixels/sec 5.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.16 Gpixels/sec 7.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.94 Gpixels/sec 6.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.34 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 467 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14935.1 FPS 15131.3 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 +1%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 +30%
19485
G2D Mark 1036 626
DirectX 11 174 FPS 137 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 62 FPS
GPU Compute 9150 Ops/s 6642 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 28684 & 8902 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 +5%
3132.26
2973.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2092 & 1893 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL123169
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Cinebench 202410455
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122261
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Steel Nomad Light12032

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 +4%
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 +5%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 +27%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 7696 6969
Image Segmentation (HP) 13706 17142
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23289 16426
Face Detection (HP) 31126 31628
Pose Estimation (Q) 78361 74413
Text Classification (SP) 3315 2522
Machine Translation (HP) 3491 3639
Object Detection (SP) 9386 9002
Depth Estimation (Q) 36778 27790
Style Transfer (SP) 148120 160005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and 3070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 18, 2023 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $299 -
Case Desktop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 GA104 (GN20-E5)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700 XT - Radeon RX 6700M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i7 12700H or above
Desktop GPU rating (#54th place)
Laptop GPU ranking (#50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1830 MHz 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2460 MHz 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 24MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118 GPixel/s 103-130 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236 GTexel/s 206-259 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
15.1 TFLOPS
13.2-16.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 115 W 80-150 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock - 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s
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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