NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile sales 4 January 2021. This is high-end Ampere architecture notebook card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 125 Watt.

General info

Of GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	77
Architecture	Ampere
GPU code name	GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	4 January 2021 (less than a year ago)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3840	of 15360 (Radeon RX 7900 XT)
Core clock speed	900 MHz	of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)
Boost clock speed	1283 - 1703 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	13,250 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)
Thermal design power (TDP)	125 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	171.0	of 779.2 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

1080p	105
1440p	73
4K	47

1920x1080
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	75
Cyberpunk 2077	76
Far Cry 5	108
Hitman 3	120
Horizon Zero Dawn	96
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	106
Watch Dogs: Legion	81

1920x1080
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	63
Battlefield 5	141
Cyberpunk 2077	64
Far Cry 5	102
Far Cry New Dawn	109
Hitman 3	114
Horizon Zero Dawn	77
Metro Exodus	72
Red Dead Redemption 2	56
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	92
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	141
Watch Dogs: Legion	71

1920x1080
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	55
Battlefield 5	131
Cyberpunk 2077	55
Far Cry 5	97
Far Cry New Dawn	98
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	74
Watch Dogs: Legion	46

2560x1440
High Preset

Hitman 3	79
Horizon Zero Dawn	61
Metro Exodus	50
Red Dead Redemption 2	40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	68
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	34

2560x1440
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	47
Battlefield 5	104
Cyberpunk 2077	36
Far Cry 5	82
Far Cry New Dawn	85
Watch Dogs: Legion	34

3840x2160
High Preset

Hitman 3	49
Horizon Zero Dawn	40
Metro Exodus	31
Red Dead Redemption 2	22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	42
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	57

3840x2160
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	11
Battlefield 5	63
Cyberpunk 2077	17
Far Cry 5	44
Far Cry New Dawn	50
Watch Dogs: Legion	19

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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