NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile Comparison

The database places the NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile in the same performance neighborhood, but the recorded results show two quite different profiles. The A5000 Mobile, an Ampere-based professional GPU from the Ax000 generation, leads in raw compute throughput and graphics tests that favor wide hardware. The RTX 4060 Mobile, a newer Ada Lovelace part from the GeForce 40 Mobile line, wins more often overall, taking six of nine head-to-head benchmarks against three for the A5000 Mobile. The overall average scores sit close together: 24763 for the A5000 Mobile against 22729 for the RTX 4060 Mobile, a gap that the per-test breakdown helps explain.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The A5000 Mobile's biggest win comes in Geekbench OpenCL, where it scores 110877 against 89420 for the RTX 4060 Mobile, a 24 percent advantage. That margin is consistent with its hardware scale: 6144 shading units, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and 19.35 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, roughly double the RTX 4060 Mobile's 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and 11.61 TFLOPS. Passmark GPU Compute follows the same pattern, with the A5000 Mobile ahead at 6945 versus 6816, a 1.9 percent edge. Its third win is Passmark DirectX 10, 115 against 107, a 7.5 percent lead.

The RTX 4060 Mobile answers across the graphics suite. Its largest margin is in Passmark DirectX 9, 216 against 169, a 21.8 percent advantage for the Ada card despite its smaller core count. Passmark DirectX 11 goes the same way, 157 against 133, a 15.3 percent gap, and Passmark G2D lands at 730 versus 629, a 13.8 percent RTX 4060 Mobile win. The flagship Passmark G3D score, often the broadest single indicator of gaming performance, favors the RTX 4060 Mobile at 17469 against 15779, a 9.7 percent difference. The two essentially tie in Passmark DirectX 12, 73 versus 72, a 1.4 percent edge to the RTX 4060 Mobile, and Geekbench Vulkan also falls to the newer card by 1.6 percent, 89569 against 88144.

The pattern is clear. Workloads that lean on raw compute and memory bandwidth favor the A5000 Mobile, while game-oriented tests favor the RTX 4060 Mobile's newer architecture and much higher clock speeds.

The Verdict

The data supports a straightforward split. Buyers whose priority is GPU compute, OpenCL workloads, or large working sets should look at the A5000 Mobile: its 24 percent Geekbench OpenCL lead and 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus with 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth dwarf the RTX 4060 Mobile's 8 GB, 128-bit, 256.0 GB/s configuration. Buyers whose priority is gaming should choose the RTX 4060 Mobile, which wins Passmark G3D by 9.7 percent and the DirectX 9 and 11 tests by 21.8 and 15.3 percent respectively.

Context from the rivals list sharpens the picture. The A5000 Mobile sits at the 70th percentile against all GPUs in the database, within 0.1 percent of the AMD Radeon RX 590, 0.5 percent of the Intel Arc A350M, 1.3 percent of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, and 2 percent of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 by average score. The RTX 4060 Mobile sits at the 67th percentile, effectively tied with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (-0.7 percent), the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (0.8 percent), the Intel Arc B580 (-1.3 percent), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile (1.3 percent). Two percentage points of percentile separate them.

Production status matters too. The A5000 Mobile is flagged End-of-life, while the RTX 4060 Mobile is Active.

Architecture Differences

These are two different design philosophies from the same manufacturer. The A5000 Mobile uses the GA104 chip on the Ampere architecture, fabricated at Samsung on an 8 nm process, with 17,400 million transistors on a 392 mm² die, yielding a density of 44.4M per mm². The RTX 4060 Mobile uses the AD107 chip on Ada Lovelace, fabricated at TSMC on a 5 nm process, packing 18,900 million transistors into just 159 mm² for a density of 118.9M per mm², more than two and a half times the A5000 Mobile's density in a die less than half the area.

The A5000 Mobile spreads its resources wide and clocks low: a 900 MHz base and 1575 MHz boost, with memory running at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). It carries 48 RT cores and 192 tensor cores. The RTX 4060 Mobile goes narrow and fast: 1545 MHz base and 1890 MHz boost, memory at 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective), with 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores. The resulting rates favor the older card on paper: 151.2 GPixel/s and 302.4 GTexel/s for the A5000 Mobile against 90.72 GPixel/s and 181.4 GTexel/s for the RTX 4060 Mobile.

Other differences: the A5000 Mobile uses a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface and carries a 150 W TDP; the RTX 4060 Mobile uses PCIe 4.0 x8 at 115 W, a meaningful efficiency gap for mobile form factors. The A5000 Mobile descends from the Quadro Turing-M line with Ada-MW as successor; the RTX 4060 Mobile follows the GeForce 30 Mobile and precedes the GeForce 50 Mobile. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins overall in the benchmark database?

A: The RTX 4060 Mobile wins six of nine head-to-head tests, including Passmark G3D (17469 versus 15779). The A5000 Mobile wins three, but its wins include the two compute-heavy tests.

Q: Which one is better for OpenCL compute work?

A: The A5000 Mobile, decisively. It scores 110877 in Geekbench OpenCL versus 89420, a 24 percent lead, and also leads Passmark GPU Compute 6945 to 6816.

Q: Which one is better for gaming?

A: The RTX 4060 Mobile. It leads Passmark G3D by 9.7 percent, DirectX 9 by 21.8 percent, DirectX 11 by 15.3 percent, and DirectX 12 by 1.4 percent.

Q: How do their memory configurations compare?

A: The A5000 Mobile has 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus with 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX 4060 Mobile has 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth.

Q: Are both GPUs still in production?

A: No. The A5000 Mobile is listed as End-of-life, while the RTX 4060 Mobile is listed as Active.

Q: How power-hungry are they?

A: The A5000 Mobile carries a 150 W TDP against 115 W for the RTX 4060 Mobile.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX A5000 Mobile owns the compute and bandwidth territory: OpenCL applications, GPU compute pipelines, and any workload where 16 GB of memory and 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth prevent the data set from spilling out of a smaller buffer. Its 19.35 TFLOPS of FP32, double the RTX 4060 Mobile's 11.61 TFLOPS, backs that up, and its 1:1 FP16 rate at the same 19.35 TFLOPS applies to mixed-precision work as well.

The RTX 4060 Mobile owns the gaming and general graphics territory. It wins the overall Passmark G3D score and every DirectX test except DirectX 10, plus the 2D graphics test, which suggests strong driver-level performance on the Ada architecture in current software. Its higher clocks and newer generation let half the shading hardware deliver more frames, and its lower 115 W TDP makes it the more practical choice for thinner or cooler-running laptops. For anyone prioritizing modern game engines, the 9.7 percent G3D lead plus the 15.3 and 21.8 percent DirectX 11 and DirectX 9 margins are the deciding numbers.

Specification Differences

| Field | RTX A5000 Mobile | RTX 4060 Mobile |

|---|---|---|

| Chip | GA104 | AD107 |

| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |

| Generation | Ampere-MW (Ax000) | GeForce 40 Mobile |

| Process node | 8 nm (Samsung) | 5 nm (TSMC) |

| Transistors | 17,400 million | 18,900 million |

| Die size | 392 mm² | 159 mm² |

| Transistor density | 44.4M / mm² | 118.9M / mm² |

| Base clock | 900 MHz | 1545 MHz |

| Boost clock | 1575 MHz | 1890 MHz |

| Memory size | 16 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |

| Bus width | 256 bit | 128 bit |

| Memory bandwidth | 448.0 GB/s | 256.0 GB/s |

| Memory speed | 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) | 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) |

| Shading units | 6144 | 3072 |

| TMUs | 192 | 96 |

| ROPs | 96 | 48 |

| RT cores | 48 | 24 |

| Tensor cores | 192 | 96 |

| Pixel rate | 151.2 GPixel/s | 90.72 GPixel/s |

| Texture rate | 302.4 GTexel/s | 181.4 GTexel/s |

| FP32 / FP16 | 19.35 TFLOPS | 11.61 TFLOPS |

| TDP | 150 W | 115 W |

| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |

| Release date | 2021-04-11 | 2023-01-02 |

| Production status | End-of-life | Active |

| Series | (not part of a named series) | GeForce 40-series |

| Predecessor | Quadro Turing-M | GeForce 30 Mobile |

| Successor | Ada-MW | GeForce 50 Mobile |

| Percentile vs all GPUs | 70 | 67 |

| Average benchmark score | 24763 | 22729 |

Both GPUs share GDDR6 memory type, PCIe 4.0, DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4, identical API support, and portable-device-dependent display outputs. The A5000 Mobile's slot width is not recorded in the database, while the RTX 4060 Mobile is classified as IGP.