NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has 3840 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.70 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 13.07 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 4608 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.57 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 25.32 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 30 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is based on the Blackwell architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 16GB
GA106 GPU Chip GB206
Ampere Architecture Blackwell
30 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
3840 Shader 4608
48 Render Output Units 48
120 Texture Units 144
30 Raytracing Cores 36

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has a 16 GB large GDDR7 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has a turbo clock of 1.702 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is 2.572 GHz.

1.387 GHz Base Clock 2.407 GHz
1.702 GHz Boost Clock 2.572 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 85 °C.

115 W TDP 180 W (Reference)
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 85 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type --
-- Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
1x DP v1.4b DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) is -- wide and therefore needs the space of -- in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is -- and thus requires the space of -- in the PC case.

-- Length --
-- Height --
-- Width --
-- Width (Slots) --
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 8
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (Laptop GPU) was released in Q2/2021.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB published in Q2/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2021 Release date Q2/2025
-- Launch Price 429 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 4 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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