NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 284.17

$ 240.79 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

40% slightly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

64 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

551% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

1954.21 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

84002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

76373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58378 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

69543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

134% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

70 W

142% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

59% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

59% significantly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

7% slightly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

7% slightly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 589

130th of 589

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 August

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 A2000 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the RTX A2000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the RTX A2000.