Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
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Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop
GA106
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
GA106 (GN20-E3)
We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A2000 Mobile 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 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
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
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 84%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 90% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 55 vs 29 FPS
- 51% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.1 vs 8.7 TFLOPS)
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 192 GB/s
- Achieves 65% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (94K vs 57K)
- Features 40 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 50% more shading units (3840 vs 2560)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 73 41 32 17 |
108 64 55 37 |
| The Witcher 3 | 63 51 31 18 |
120 95 68 35 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 105 72 49 19 |
173 125 89 44 |
| Far Cry 6 | 59 50 36 20 |
88 78 64 34 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 33 28 21 10 |
62 51 36 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 44 35 22 18 |
76 69 49 30 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 31 26 18 10 |
58 45 33 21 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 36 30 20 - |
63 56 35 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 63 57 35 18 |
101 94 66 32 |
| 1080p High | 56 | 94 |
| 1080p Ultra | 43 | 75 |
| 1440p Ultra | 29 | 55 |
| 4K Ultra | 15 | 30 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4796 | 8318 |
| Solar Bay | 19912 | 36291 |
| Port Royal | 2920 | 4708 |
| Fire Strike | 11732 | 20181 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 8828 | 16477 |
| Night Raid | 50295 | 72311 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 92.8 img/sec | 153.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 54.2 img/sec | 90 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.47 Gpixels/sec | 4.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.32 Gpixels/sec | 5.77 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.63 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.7 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 236.9 Gpixels/sec | 385.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7148.8 FPS | 12770 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 508 | 586 |
| DirectX 11 | 64 FPS | 109 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 47 FPS | 58 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 4222 Ops/s | 5621 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 95620 |
| 📘 2026-04-17 (RaRagi-Bliss) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 95620 |
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) | 4240 | 6257 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 9190 | 16583 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 9374 | 12510 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 18335 | 29528 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 36989 | 51349 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2035 | 2685 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2687 | 3939 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 5174 | 7206 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 16537 | 24343 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 77854 | 113151 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 3060 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 12, 2021 | January 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | GA106 | GA106 (GN20-E3) |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 6600M |
| Successor | - Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada) | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12800H or above | - Intel Core i5 12500H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (89th and 66th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 735-1463 MHz (configurable) | 816-1387 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1035-1695 MHz (configurable) | 1283-1703 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3840 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 80 | 120 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 30 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | 120 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | 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 | 50-81 GPixel/s | 62-82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 83-136 GTexel/s | 154-204 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-95 W (configurable) | 60-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 276 mm² | 300 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 12 billion | 13.25 billion |
| Transistor Density | 43.48 MTr/mm² | 44.17 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000 Mbps | 12000-14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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