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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 9% to 91%, including 62% in 3DMark Time Spy (14,182 vs 8,747). On deepseek-r1:14b, the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB generates 53.1 tokens/s (per hkadm/ollama_gpu_test (GitHub)) against 29.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per Ajit Singh / singhajit.com), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB. Both released in 2021. MSRP range: $329 · $1,999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB
vram gb 1224
vram type GDDR6—
tdp w 170230
cuda cores 35848192

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from GPU-Monkey, 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, TopCPU.net, UL Benchmarks, CpuTronic and technical.city; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey, 3DMark		 21,653 points27,271 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, 3DMark		 5,074 points—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark		 2,170 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks, 3DMark, CpuTronic		 1,984 points3,793 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks, 3DMark		 1,978 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, CpuTronic, 3DMark		 8,747 points14,182 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better)
Source: Legit Reviews		 9,755 points—
Blender Benchmark (higher is better)
Source: CpuTronic		 —2,981 points
Geekbench 5 CUDA (higher is better)
Source: technical.city		 —190,987 points
Geekbench 5 OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: technical.city		 —155,952 points
Geekbench 5 Vulkan (higher is better)
Source: technical.city		 —137,639 points
OctaneBench (higher is better)
Source: CpuTronic		 —592 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB?

The NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 5 shared benchmarks on file, by 9% to 91%, including 62% in 3DMark Time Spy (14,182 vs 8,747).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On deepseek-r1:14b, the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB generates 53.1 tokens/s (per hkadm/ollama_gpu_test (GitHub)) against 29.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per Ajit Singh / singhajit.com), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 launched at a $329 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB at $1,999. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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