NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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 RTX A4000

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 1018.41 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

7111 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

175 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

88 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

119 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

65 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

11018 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

3139.35 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

124547 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

116149 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

83390 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

122638 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

127645 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

91% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

140 W

42% much lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

6144

26% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

192

26% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

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 Ti vs RTX A4000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A4000 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a much lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A4000 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.