Intel Arc A770 vs GeForce RTX 3060
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Intel Arc A770
DG2-512
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Intel Arc A770 16 GB with 4096 shaders against the 1 year and 9 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 A770
- Performs significantly better (up to 40%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 55% higher maximum theoretical performance (19.7 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Shows 10% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 60 FPS
- Features 400 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 42% higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 360 GB/s
- Achieves 24% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (113K vs 91K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 119 77 64 50 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 147 126 91 46 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 162 114 82 42 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 108 98 75 41 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 69 57 45 22 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 80 81 58 37 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 69 58 45 25 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 86 77 53 24 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 118 105 81 43 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 106 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 88 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 66 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 37 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 13554 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 51133 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 7236 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 34120 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 26276 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 122449 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 175 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 98 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.63 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.51 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 8.51 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.89 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 492.6 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 24819.2 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 760 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 78 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 74 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5820 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Intel Arc A770
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) | 5750 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 16175 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 12997 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 21409 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 67820 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 849 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2627 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7465 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 24186 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 183238 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Arc A770 and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 12, 2022 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | $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 (51st and 57th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2100 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2400 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 256 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 512 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | - | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 16MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 307 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 614 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 | 16 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 | - | 1.4a |
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