NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 1385.00

$ 164.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

96% significantly better overall score

7111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

175 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

88 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

119 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

65 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

80% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

11018 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

3139.35 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

238123 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

124547 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

116149 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

83390 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

122638 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

127645 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

90% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

140 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

149.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

85% significantly higher texture rate

299.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

85% significantly better floating point performance

19.17 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

70% significantly more shading units

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

70% significantly more texture mapping units

192

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

25th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs RTX A4000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the RTX A4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the RTX A4000.