NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 184.3 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3072
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Texture fill rate	184.3 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines	4096 vs 3072
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 855 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1440 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 733 vs 596
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17585 vs 13847
Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89105 vs 80996

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	1545 MHz vs 855 MHz
Boost clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	733 vs 596
PassMark - G3D Mark	17585 vs 13847
Geekbench - OpenCL	89105 vs 80996

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

596

733

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13847

17585

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

80996

89105

Name	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	596	733
PassMark - G3D Mark	13847	17585
Geekbench - OpenCL	80996	89105
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2257

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Code name	GA104	AD107
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	114	116
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1890 MHz
Core clock speed	855 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	184.3 GFLOPS (1:64)	181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.80 TFLOPS (1:1)	11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	11.80 TFLOPS	11.61 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4096	3072
Pixel fill rate	92.16 GPixel/s	60.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	184.3 GTexel/s	181.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	115 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Form factor		IGP
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6