NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop, 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

8113 points

0.11% slightly better overall score

8104 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

227 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

102 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

120 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

67 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

2925.42 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

125086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

106543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1575 MHz

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

220 W

140 W

57% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

9% slightly higher pixel rate

151.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

365.4 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

23.39 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

7424

26% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

232

26% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

54th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 March

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 3070 vs RTX A5500 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the RTX A5500 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 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.

In addition, the RTX A5500 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 RTX A5500 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3070.