NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A6000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A6000

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 4516.70 significantly less expensive

$ 5076.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

13092 points

61% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

315 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

158 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

223 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

123 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

5294.30 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

224604 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

200330 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

109243 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

193937 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

165252 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

1800 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

768 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

36% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

201.6 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

604.8 Gigatexels/s

90% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

90% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

10752

82% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

336

82% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

27th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 October

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 A6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the RTX A6000 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the RTX A6000 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the RTX A6000 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A6000 over the GeForce RTX 3070.

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