Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

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 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 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 4070 Mobile over RTX A3000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
  • Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 56%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 53% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 53 FPS
  • 56% higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 12.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (115K vs 89K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
104
65
52
37
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
114
89
66
33
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
164
122
89
43
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
86
77
61
30
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
62
51
36
19
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
66
43
29
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
55
45
35
17
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
61
54
31
15
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
97
88
60
32
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 91 133
1080p Ultra 73 109
1440p Ultra 53 81
4K Ultra 28 46
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 12514
Solar Bay 33550 54815
Port Royal 4476 7416
Fire Strike 19662 30057
Wild Life Extreme 3521 23262
Night Raid 75487 113672
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
115081
Background Blur 140.7 img/sec 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 73 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.08 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.52 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.3 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.9 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 414.8 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12769.8 FPS 16372.3 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 555 766
DirectX 11 102 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 5426 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]1323 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3585.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10]90 & 2189 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench35869

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 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 11804 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11986 26378
Face Detection (HP) 21457 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 52678 105983
Text Classification (SP) 2248 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 2727 4507
Object Detection (SP) 6308 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 20307 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 111653 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 12, 2021 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA104 AD106 (GN21-X6)
Successor - Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada) - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (61st and 22nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 600-1080 MHz (configurable) 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1180-1560 MHz (configurable) 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 4096 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 36
Tensor Cores 128 144
Ray-tracing Cores 32 36
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 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 151-200 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9.7-12.8 TFLOPS
11.3-20 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 186 mm²
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 123.12 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
264 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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