Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A1000 Mobile 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 11 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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 4060 Mobile over RTX A1000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 33 FPS
  • 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
75
45
35
22
120
77
66
44
The Witcher 3
67
52
37
18
141
112
79
42
Counter-Strike 2
115
78
53
23
205
153
110
54
Far Cry 6
57
51
38
18
103
92
75
43
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
24
12
74
62
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
46
36
27
18
95
85
59
37
Ghost of Tsushima
36
24
21
10
74
60
42
23
Cyberpunk 2077
38
35
20
9
82
72
42
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
66
60
40
19
127
116
83
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 113
1080p Ultra 46 92
1440p Ultra 33 67
4K Ultra 17 37
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 10397
Solar Bay 21233 45002
Port Royal 577 5819
Fire Strike 12109 26481
Wild Life Extreme - 19820
Night Raid - 98330
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
97986
Background Blur 80.6 img/sec 142.7 img/sec
Face Detection 47.7 img/sec 103.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.14 Gpixels/sec 3.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.82 Gpixels/sec 4.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.61 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 199.8 Gpixels/sec 430.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6124.5 FPS 13519.5 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 524 731
DirectX 11 64 FPS 155 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 3834 Ops/s 6789 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]1148 & 22366 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3297.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10]29 & 4269 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)GeekBench115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)GeekBench101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)GeekBench107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306

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 7421
Image Segmentation (HP) 10426 19041
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8368 20913
Face Detection (HP) 18130 35464
Pose Estimation (Q) 32595 67110
Text Classification (SP) 2340 3086
Machine Translation (HP) 3225 4740
Object Detection (SP) 4684 8644
Depth Estimation (Q) 16324 32456
Style Transfer (SP) 70507 142039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 30, 2022 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA107 AD107 (GN21-X4)
Successor - Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada) - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (92nd and 42nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 712-1530 MHz (configurable) 1140-2295 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) 1470-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 24
Tensor Cores 64 96
Ray-tracing Cores 16 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 34-56 GPixel/s 71-114 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 68-111 GTexel/s 141-228 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS
9-14.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-95 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
176 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.6 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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