Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A2000 Mobile 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 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 A2000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 29 FPS
  • 68% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 8.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 71% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (97K vs 57K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
73
41
32
17
120
77
66
44
The Witcher 3
63
51
31
18
141
112
79
42
Counter-Strike 2
105
72
49
19
205
153
110
54
Far Cry 6
59
50
36
20
103
92
75
43
Hogwarts Legacy
33
28
21
10
74
62
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
44
35
22
18
95
85
59
37
Ghost of Tsushima
31
26
18
10
74
60
42
23
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
20
-
82
72
42
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
63
57
35
18
127
116
83
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 56 113
1080p Ultra 43 92
1440p Ultra 29 67
4K Ultra 15 37
Margin of Error Low 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 4796 10397
Solar Bay 19912 45002
Port Royal 2920 5819
Fire Strike 11732 26481
Wild Life Extreme 8828 19820
Night Raid 50295 98330
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 92.8 img/sec 142.7 img/sec
Face Detection 54.2 img/sec 103.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.47 Gpixels/sec 3.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.32 Gpixels/sec 4.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.63 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.7 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 236.9 Gpixels/sec 430.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7148.8 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 508 731
DirectX 11 64 FPS 155 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 4222 Ops/s 6789 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2124 & 22366 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3293.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 76 & 4321 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Geekbench 6 OpenCL115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)Geekbench 6 OpenCL101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)Geekbench 6 OpenCL107583
📘 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) 4240 7421
Image Segmentation (HP) 9190 19041
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9374 20913
Face Detection (HP) 18335 35464
Pose Estimation (Q) 36989 67110
Text Classification (SP) 2035 3086
Machine Translation (HP) 2687 4740
Object Detection (SP) 5174 8644
Depth Estimation (Q) 16537 32456
Style Transfer (SP) 77854 142039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 12, 2021 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA106 AD107 (GN21-X4)
Successor - Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada) - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (89th and 43rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-1463 MHz (configurable) 1140-2295 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1035-1695 MHz (configurable) 1470-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 24
Tensor Cores 80 96
Ray-tracing Cores 20 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 50-81 GPixel/s 71-114 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 83-136 GTexel/s 141-228 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.3-8.7 TFLOPS
9-14.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 60-95 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 276 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 12 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
192 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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