NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4552 points

5498 points

20% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS

140 FPS

28 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

64 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

79 FPS

95 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

54 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2640.64 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

118896 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

106611 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

73002 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

97351 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

91700 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

1140 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1680 MHz

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

384 GB/s

14% 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

134.4 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

268.8 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

17.2 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

5120

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

92nd 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 Laptop specs and performance

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

The RTX A4000 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the RTX A4000 Laptop at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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