NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 3526.01 significantly less expensive

$ 5076.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

6% slightly better overall score

13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

315 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

158 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

223 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

123 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

5294.30 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

238123 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

224604 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

200330 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

109243 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

0.27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

193937 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

165252 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1410 MHz

0.71% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1800 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

Identical

384 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

21% slightly higher memory bandwidth

768 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

300 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

201.6 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

604.8 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

10752

2% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

336

2% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

Identical

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

28th 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

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 A6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the RTX A6000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the RTX A6000 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. In addition, the RTX A6000 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.

In addition, the RTX A6000 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the RTX A6000.