NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points
140% significantly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
237% significantly higher Blender score
697.32 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40962 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
8% slightly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed
1537 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
250% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
39% slightly higher pixel rate
49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
73% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
87% significantly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
87% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs RTX A500 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop is better than the RTX A500 Laptop.

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