NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A1000

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 189.82 significantly less expensive

$ 473.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

96% significantly better overall score

2680 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

68 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

1266.96 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

52816 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50120 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

81% significantly higher core clock speed

727 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1462 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

87% significantly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

50 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

46.78 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

105.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

55% 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

98th of 586

167th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2024 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 vs RTX A1000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the RTX A1000 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A1000 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the RTX A1000.