NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 98% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 780 MHz
  • Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 730 vs 647
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17648 vs 15453
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 1545 MHz vs 780 MHz
Boost clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 730 vs 647
PassMark - G3D Mark 17648 vs 15453

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

  • Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 206.4 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 3072
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 92447 vs 88836
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 206.4 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5120 vs 3072
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 92447 vs 88836
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10465 vs 10441

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
730
647
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17648
15453
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
88836
92447
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
10441
10465
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 730 647
PassMark - G3D Mark 17648 15453
Geekbench - OpenCL 88836 92447
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10441 10465
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 449.647
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4619.617
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 36.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 181.818
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1410.887
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 13334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 24877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 11471
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 13334

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD107 GA104
Launch date 2023 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 87 84
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1890 MHz 1290 MHz
Core clock speed 1545 MHz 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 181.4 GFLOPS (1:64) 206.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.61 TFLOPS (1:1) 13.21 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 11.61 TFLOPS 13.21 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3072 5120
Pixel fill rate 60.48 GPixel/s 103.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 181.4 GTexel/s 206.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Laptop size large

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready