NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1425MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +687%

10.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 860M

1149

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile +615%

8225

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1425 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

640

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

68.40 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

171.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.94 TFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.94 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

171.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

60-115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA106

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

12 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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