NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
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 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256 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.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 54.77 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT.
General info
Of GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Ampere
Code name
GN20-E3 GA106
Type
Laptop
Release date
4 January 2021
Technical specs
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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.
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
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 benchmarks performance of GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
54.77
3DMark Fire Strike Score
19125
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
22460
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
30200
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile performance compared to its nearest competitors.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile from AMD is Radeon RX 5500 XT, which is slower by 36% and lower by 67 positions in our rating.
