GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated168
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Power efficiencyno data27.91
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BGA106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19203840
Core clock speed1005 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate187.2171.0
Floating-point processing power5.99 TFLOPS10.94 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs120120
Tensor Cores240120
Ray Tracing Cores3030

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s336.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh has 23.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh and GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh
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