GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop vs RTX 4060
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We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile with 26 pipelines and 3328 shaders against the 2 years older RTX RTX 4060 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 78 vs 69 FPS
- Has 41% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 272 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 |
128 78 66 47 |
| The Witcher 3 | 153 127 93 51 |
143 117 82 44 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 228 173 120 67 |
208 157 111 58 |
| Far Cry 6 | 116 106 85 50 |
105 98 76 45 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 87 73 53 31 |
78 65 47 26 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 108 100 72 48 |
98 90 64 43 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 80 67 52 28 |
73 61 45 27 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 95 82 49 22 |
82 75 43 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 144 130 97 53 |
128 119 85 46 |
| 1080p High | 128 | 116 |
| 1080p Ultra | 105 | 96 |
| 1440p Ultra | 78 | 69 |
| 4K Ultra | 45 | 40 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12018 | 10615 |
| Solar Bay | 53003 | 49340 |
| Port Royal | 7458 | 6054 |
| Fire Strike | 31583 | 28540 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 21605 | 20610 |
| Night Raid | 114257 | 121368 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 190.8 img/sec | 186.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 115.9 img/sec | 112.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.17 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.28 Gpixels/sec | 5.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.1 Gpixels/sec | 4.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.32 Gpixels/sec | 1.34 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 523.3 Gpixels/sec | 446.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 16169.3 FPS | 14935.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 840 | 1036 |
| DirectX 11 | 162 FPS | 174 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 79 FPS | 76 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6144 Ops/s | 9150 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
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 105636 |
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Cinebench 2024 | 10606 |
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 | 7696 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 23623 | 13706 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19973 | 23289 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 41164 | 31126 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 77589 | 78361 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2880 | 3315 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5811 | 3491 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9966 | 9386 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 37206 | 36778 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 136961 | 148120 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and RTX 4060General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 14, 2025 | May 18, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $299 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GB206 | AD107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 7700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX or above | - Intel Core i5 14600K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#20th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#54th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 952-1455 MHz (configurable) | 1830 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1455-2497 MHz (configurable) | 2460 MHz |
| 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 | 24MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 70-120 GPixel/s | 118 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 151-260 GTexel/s | 236 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 45-115 W (configurable) | 115 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 181 mm² | 159 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 21.9 billion | 18 billion |
| Transistor Density | 120.99 MTr/mm² | 113.21 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 89°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | - |
| Effective Memory Speed | 24000 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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