NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB, 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

5276 points

30% slightly better overall score

4043 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

94 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

49 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

68 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

568% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1312 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

1823.85 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

83470 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

79123 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

72991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

70140 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 586

123rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 November

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 12GB specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the RTX A2000 12GB in our tests.

Our database shows that 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 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 12GB has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the RTX A2000 12GB.