NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile (for laptops, GN20-E3, Max-P) is the third Ampere graphics card for notebooks in early 2021. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 192 Bit memory bus. It supports PCIe 4.0 and will be available in different variants from 60 or 115 Watt (TGP). As package the notebook graphic card uses GB5-256 and the chip size is 40x40mm. The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor.

There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, Whisper Mode).

The performance depends on the TGP setting and cooling of the laptop. On average it should be similar to the older GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mobile and therefore best suited for QHD gaming (very demanding games). Less demanding games like Star Wars Squadrons should be playable in 4k with maximum detail settings. The similar named RTX 3060 desktop card is significantly faster.

The GA106 chip offers 3,840 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 1,920 INT32 ALUs). The mobile RTX 3060 uses all 3,840 cores on the chip. With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).

The GA106 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).

TGP Frequencies
60W = 817-1282 MHz
65W = 975-1357 MHz
70W = 1050-1402 MHz
80W = 900-1425 MHz
85W = 1035-1485 MHz
90W = 1163-1530 MHz
95W = 1215-1567 MHz
100W = 1267-1605 MHz
105W = 1305-1642 MHz
110W = 1342-1680 MHz
115W = 1387-1702 MHz

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a mid-range desktop GPU which is manufactured in a 5 nm process at TSMC. The manufacturer thus rounds off its current Ada-Lovelace lineup further in the direction of the mid-range. The AD106 is used as the chip. It combines 4,352 CUDA cores with 8 GB GDDR6. An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB VRAM is supposed to follow later. The memory interface is 128 bits, which results in a memory bandwidth of only 288 GB/s.

Features

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is not deprived of the features that have already arrived with the high-end models of the Ada-Lovelace generation, such as DLSS 3.0 with frame generation. Thus, the new mid-range clearly stands out from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and can gain a significant advantage in games that offer these features. 

Performance

Without DLSS, the performance of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is about 10% better than that of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Compared to AMD, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti positions itself exactly between an AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT and an AMD Radeon RX 6800, although AMD has a small advantage here with the larger VRAM when it goes beyond 1080p. However, this is not the intended goal of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, as this is rather a graphics card for the 1,080p gaming range.