Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop vs 1000 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A1000 Mobile 4 GB with 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer 1000 Mobile (Ada) 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 1000 Mobile (Ada) over RTX A1000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada)
  • 70% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 52% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (73K vs 48K)
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
75
45
35
22
-
The Witcher 3
67
52
37
18
-
Counter-Strike 2
115
78
53
23
-
Far Cry 6
57
51
38
18
-
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
24
12
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
46
36
27
18
-
Ghost of Tsushima
36
24
21
10
-
Cyberpunk 2077
38
35
20
9
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
66
60
40
19
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 -
1080p Ultra 46 -
1440p Ultra 33 -
4K Ultra 17 -
Margin of Error High High

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 4657 -
Solar Bay 21233 -
Port Royal 577 -
Fire Strike 12109 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 80.6 img/sec 123.8 img/sec
Face Detection 47.7 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.14 Gpixels/sec 2.88 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.82 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.61 Gpixels/sec 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 199.8 Gpixels/sec 290 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6124.5 FPS 9455.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 524 562
DirectX 11 64 FPS 110 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 63 FPS
GPU Compute 3834 Ops/s 5295 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]1148 & 687 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10]29 & 29 samples

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) 4109 5554
Image Segmentation (HP) 10426 11873
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8368 15799
Face Detection (HP) 18130 25103
Pose Estimation (Q) 32595 51054
Text Classification (SP) 2340 2761
Machine Translation (HP) 3225 3137
Object Detection (SP) 4684 6750
Depth Estimation (Q) 16324 24450
Style Transfer (SP) 70507 101447
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A1000 Laptop and 1000 Laptop (Ada)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 30, 2022 February 26, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA107 AD107
Successor - Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada) -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (92nd and 47th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 712-1530 MHz (configurable) -
Boost Clock 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) 1245-2360 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 20
Tensor Cores 64 80
Ray-tracing Cores 16 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 34-56 GPixel/s 60-113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 68-111 GTexel/s 100-189 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.3-7.1 TFLOPS
6.4-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 35-95 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 11000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
176 GB/s
192 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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