NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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: 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 1110 MHz
Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1545 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Launch date	2023 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 1110 MHz
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Around 64% higher texture fill rate: 296.6 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 6144 vs 3072

Texture fill rate	296.6 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines	6144 vs 3072

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	732
PassMark - G3D Mark	17566
Geekbench - OpenCL	89106
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2255
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		371.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3552.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		190.723
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1422.602
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		26295
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		9367
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		8604
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		26295
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		9367
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		8604

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD107	GA104
Launch date	2023	12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating	123	87
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz	1545 MHz
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	1110 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)	296.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)	18.98 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.61 TFLOPS	18.98 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	6144
Pixel fill rate	60.48 GPixel/s	148.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	181.4 GTexel/s	296.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	115 Watt
Transistor count		17400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		PCIe 4.0 x16
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	448.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready