GeForce 840M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 840M vs GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce 840M

1121

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

GeForce 840M

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N15S-GT

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

January 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1124 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1029 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

863.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.98

199.0

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus