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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

142% 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

79 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

237% significantly higher Blender score

697.32 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40962 points

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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

218th of 597

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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the RTX A500 Laptop.