NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 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

3792 points

5498 points

44% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

140 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

64 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

58 FPS

95 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

39 FPS

54 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1340.13 points

2640.64 points

97% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

64172 points

118896 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

106611 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50239 points

73002 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68305 points

97351 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50377 points

91700 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

1140 MHz

89% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1215 MHz

1680 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

133% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.76 Gigapixels/s

134.4 Gigapixels/s

72% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

145.8 Gigatexels/s

268.8 Gigatexels/s

84% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.67 TFLOPS

17.2 TFLOPS

268% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

5120

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

128th of 597

92nd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 April

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

Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs RTX A4000 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 Laptop beats the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The RTX A4000 Laptop 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 RTX A4000 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the RTX A4000 Laptop at 140 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 RTX A4000 Laptop over the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q.