GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs Intel Arc A770 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs Intel Arc A770. All released in 2022. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA · Ampere
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Intel · Alchemist
Intel Arc A770
16 GB VRAM225W TDP$349 MSRP2022
Full Intel Arc A770 benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB | Intel Arc A770 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | — | 16 |
| vram type | — | GDDR6 |
| tdp w | — | 225 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB | Intel Arc A770 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 21,653 points | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike (GPU subscore) | — | 33,666 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (GPU subscore) | — | 15,638 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (GPU subscore) | — | 7,016 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 5,072 points | 7,354 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 2,192 points | 2,531 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way Stress Test | — | 2,531 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,978 points | 2,972 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 | — | 2,965 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 8,754 points | 14,865 points |
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 82,071 points | — |
| Geekbench 6 Vulkan | 91,383 points | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
- llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s
Intel Arc A770
- mistral:7b: 70.0 tok/s
- mistral:7b: 70.0 tok/s
- mistral:7b: 70.0 tok/s
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