Intel Arc A750 vs GeForce RTX 3060
Intel Arc A750
DG2-512
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A750 8 GB with 3584 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months older GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Intel Arc A750
- Performs better (up to 21%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 35% higher maximum theoretical performance (17.2 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Features 336 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 42% higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 360 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 113 68 57 43 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 130 114 81 41 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 149 108 78 40 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 97 87 68 35 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 63 50 40 23 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 71 69 47 27 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 67 51 41 20 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 78 69 47 22 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 110 98 72 42 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 98 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 79 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 59 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 33 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12423 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 45821 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 6594 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 30403 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 23688 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 110746 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 145.2 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 82 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.35 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.01 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.59 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.81 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 462.4 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 18623.1 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 738 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 73 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 70 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5297 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Intel Arc A750
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-07 (tach) | Cinebench 2024 | 7952 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 5475 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 13781 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 11612 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 18556 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 58801 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 824 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2397 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6895 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 22219 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 161148 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Arc A750 and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 12, 2023 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $289 | $329 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Generation 12.7 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | DG2-512 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12500 or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (59th and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2050 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2400 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3584 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 224 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 448 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 28 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 16MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 269 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 538 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 225 W | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 406 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 21 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 51.72 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.0 | 1.4a |
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