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Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
GA104
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A3000 Mobile 6 GB with 32 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 1 year and 10 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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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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 A3000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
  • Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
  • Features 32 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 33% more shading units (4096 vs 3072)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 26% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 53 FPS
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX A3000 Laptop
vs
RTX 4060 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
104
65
52
37
120
77
66
44
The Witcher 3
114
89
66
33
141
112
79
42
Counter-Strike 2
164
122
89
43
205
153
110
54
Far Cry 6
86
77
61
30
103
92
75
43
Hogwarts Legacy
62
51
36
19
74
62
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
66
43
29
95
85
59
37
Ghost of Tsushima
55
45
35
17
74
60
42
23
Cyberpunk 2077
61
54
31
15
82
72
42
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
97
88
60
32
127
116
83
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 91 113
1080p Ultra 73 92
1440p Ultra 53 67
4K Ultra 28 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 7575 10397
Solar Bay 33550 45002
Port Royal 4476 5819
Fire Strike 19662 26481
Wild Life Extreme 3521 19820
Night Raid 75487 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 140.7 img/sec 142.7 img/sec
Face Detection 73 img/sec 103.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.08 Gpixels/sec 3.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.52 Gpixels/sec 4.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.3 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.9 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 414.8 Gpixels/sec 430.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12769.8 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 555 731
DirectX 11 102 FPS 155 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 5426 Ops/s 6789 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1323 & 22366 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX A3000 Laptop
1924.26
RTX 4060 Laptop +71%
3297.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 90 & 4269 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
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📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)GeekBench115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)GeekBench101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)GeekBench107583
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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) 4552 7421
Image Segmentation (HP) 11804 19041
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11986 20913
Face Detection (HP) 21457 35464
Pose Estimation (Q) 52678 67110
Text Classification (SP) 2248 3086
Machine Translation (HP) 2727 4740
Object Detection (SP) 6308 8644
Depth Estimation (Q) 20307 32456
Style Transfer (SP) 111653 142039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A3000 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 GA104 AD107 (GN21-X4)
Successor - Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada) - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (61st and 42nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600-1080 MHz (configurable) 1140-2295 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1180-1560 MHz (configurable) 1470-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 4096 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 24
Tensor Cores 128 96
Ray-tracing Cores 32 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 76-100 GPixel/s 71-114 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 151-200 GTexel/s 141-228 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX A3000 Laptop
9.7-12.8 TFLOPS
RTX 4060 Laptop +14%
9-14.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 60-130 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 392 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC Yes No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX A3000 Laptop +3%
264 GB/s
RTX 4060 Laptop
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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