NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, 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 A4000

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

7111 points

55% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

175 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

88 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

119 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

65 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

3139.35 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

124547 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

116149 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

83390 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

122638 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

127645 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

16 GiB

167% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

448 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

119% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

75% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

75% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

6144

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

192

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

66th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 April

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 A4000 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 over the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.