NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 18604
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 18604
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 29 January 2019
Pipelines 3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 vs 18604
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 vs 18604
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 8898
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 8898

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1425 MHz
  • 8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8029 vs 7929
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8029 vs 7929
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1440 MHz vs 1425 MHz
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8029 vs 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8029 vs 7929

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
18604
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
18604
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8029
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8898
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8898
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 18604
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 18604
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929 8029
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929 8029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 8898
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 8898
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7393
PassMark - G2D Mark 601
PassMark - G3D Mark 12354

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA106 TU106
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 119 121
Type Laptop Laptop
Price now $489.99
Value for money (0-100) 49.06

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1425 MHz 1440 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 1215 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2304
Pixel fill rate 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready