Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop (34/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 49.0 Poor 49.0 Poor
Gaming 28.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 19662 75325
Night Raid 75487 214655
Port Royal 4476 39888
Solar Bay 33550 255911
Time Spy 7575 42614
Wild Life Extreme 3521 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 8.6 12
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 91 284
1080p Ultra 73 242
1440p Ultra 53 196
4K Ultra 28 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 72664329 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 1641228943 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 61543115 25322116071
Far Cry 6 86776130 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 104655237 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 55453517 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 62513619 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 97886032 319298224121
The Witcher 3 114896633 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 20307 90853
Face Detection (HP) 21457 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4552 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 11804 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11986 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 2727 7291
Object Detection (SP) 6308 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 52678 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 111653 635289
Text Classification (SP) 2248 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 140.7 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 5.52 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 73 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.9 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.3 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.08 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12769.8 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 414.8 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB202-300-A1
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12800HXor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released April 12, 2021 March 18, 2026
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $8559

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 600-1080 MHz (configurable) 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 1180-1560 MHz (configurable) 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 32 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 190
Shading Units 4096 24064
Tensor Cores 128 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC Yes Yes
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 102 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 555 1391
GPU Compute 5426 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 392 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 60-130 W (configurable) 600 W
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 76-100 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 151-200 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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