Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A1000 Mobile 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 Mobile over RTX A1000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 62%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 67% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 55 vs 33 FPS
  • 85% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.1 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Features 56 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 91% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 176 GB/s
  • Achieves 94% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (94K vs 48K)
  • Has 88% more shading units (3840 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
75
45
35
22
108
64
55
37
The Witcher 3
67
52
37
18
120
95
68
35
Counter-Strike 2
115
78
53
23
173
125
89
44
Far Cry 6
57
51
38
18
88
78
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
24
12
62
51
36
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
46
36
27
18
76
69
49
30
Ghost of Tsushima
36
24
21
10
58
45
33
21
Cyberpunk 2077
38
35
20
9
63
56
35
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
66
60
40
19
101
94
66
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 94
1080p Ultra 46 75
1440p Ultra 33 55
4K Ultra 17 30
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 4657 8318
Solar Bay 21233 36291
Port Royal 577 4708
Fire Strike 12109 20181
Wild Life Extreme - 16477
Night Raid - 72311
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 80.6 img/sec 153.5 img/sec
Face Detection 47.7 img/sec 90 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.14 Gpixels/sec 4.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.82 Gpixels/sec 5.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.61 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 199.8 Gpixels/sec 385.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6124.5 FPS 12770 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 524 586
DirectX 11 64 FPS 109 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 3834 Ops/s 5621 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]1148 & 21345 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2328.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10]29 & 3143 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)GeekBench95620
📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss)GeekBench95620

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 4109 6257
Image Segmentation (HP) 10426 16583
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8368 12510
Face Detection (HP) 18130 29528
Pose Estimation (Q) 32595 51349
Text Classification (SP) 2340 2685
Machine Translation (HP) 3225 3939
Object Detection (SP) 4684 7206
Depth Estimation (Q) 16324 24343
Style Transfer (SP) 70507 113151
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 30, 2022 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ampere Ampere
GPU Codename GA107 GA106 (GN20-E3)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6600M
Successor - Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada) - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800H or above - Intel Core i5 12500H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (92nd and 64th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 712-1530 MHz (configurable) 816-1387 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) 1283-1703 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 30
Tensor Cores 64 120
Ray-tracing Cores 16 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 34-56 GPixel/s 62-82 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 68-111 GTexel/s 154-204 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS
9.9-13.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-95 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung Samsung
Fabrication Process 8 nm 8 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 300 mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 billion 13.25 billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm² 44.17 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
176 GB/s
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.6 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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