GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs Radeon HD 8670M

Place in performance ranking	974	159
Place by popularity	not in top-100	99
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	0.05	no data
Architecture	GCN (2011−2017)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Sun	GN20-E3 GA106
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	16 November 2012 (11 years ago)	4 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price	$338	no data

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	3840
Core clock speed	775 MHz	817 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	1702 MHz
Number of transistors	690 million	13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	19.50	171.0
Floating-point performance	633.6 gflops	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8670M and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 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	medium sized	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	no data	8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

HD 8670M 1.34

RTX 3060 Mobile 32.42
+2319%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 2319% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

HD 8670M 520

RTX 3060 Mobile 12550
+2313%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 2313% in Passmark.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD 8670M 4077

RTX 3060 Mobile 57333
+1306%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 1306% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD 8670M 1396

RTX 3060 Mobile 27419
+1864%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 1864% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

HD 8670M 829

RTX 3060 Mobile 20609
+2386%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 2386% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

HD 8670M 4840

RTX 3060 Mobile 104826
+2066%

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 8670M by 2066% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD	13 −685%	102 +685%
1440p	2−3 −3350%	69 +3350%
4K	1−2 −4000%	41 +4000%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

−2475%

103
+2475%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −867%	85−90 +867%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −2050%	86 +2050%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −10200%	100−110 +10200%
Hitman 3	2−3 −5900%	120 +5900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2 −9500%	96 +9500%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −1200%	50−55 +1200%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 −1414%	106 +1414%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	60−65
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −867%	85−90 +867%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −1625%	69 +1625%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −10200%	100−110 +10200%
Hitman 3	2−3 −5600%	114 +5600%
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2 −7600%	77 +7600%
Metro Exodus	2−3 −3950%	81 +3950%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −1300%	56 +1300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 −1214%	92 +1214%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −3450%	142 +3450%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −1450%	62 +1450%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −10200%	100−110 +10200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −1850%	78 +1850%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −1633%	50−55 +1633%
Hitman 3	4−5 −1875%	79 +1875%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −663%	61 +663%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6 −1260%	68 +1260%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −3800%	39 +3800%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −4100%	84 +4100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 −2050%	40−45 +2050%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −1250%	27−30 +1250%
Hitman 3	1−2 −4800%	49 +4800%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 −186%	20 +186%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	22