NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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$ 754.99

$ 420.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1175.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

72 %

41% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

175 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

88 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

121 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

67 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714

10987

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24

3351.27

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213

124547

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416

116149

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845

83390

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89260

120432

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85064

106839

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

79% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

448 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

140 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

75% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

6144

71% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

192

71% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 363

25th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

April 2021

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 A4000 comparison

For gaming, the RTX A4000 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the RTX A4000 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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