NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA RTX A2000

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

20% slightly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

64 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

1954.21 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

84002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

76373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58378 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

69543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

70 W

14% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

15% slightly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

15% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

129th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs RTX A2000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the RTX A2000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the RTX A2000.