Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop vs 1000 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A2000 Mobile 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years 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 A2000 Mobile
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 1000 Laptop (Ada)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 39% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 8.7 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 29% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (73K vs 57K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
73
41
32
17
-
The Witcher 3
63
51
31
18
-
Counter-Strike 2
105
72
49
19
-
Far Cry 6
59
50
36
20
-
Hogwarts Legacy
33
28
21
10
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
44
35
22
18
-
Ghost of Tsushima
31
26
18
10
-
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
20
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
63
57
35
18
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 56 -
1080p Ultra 43 -
1440p Ultra 29 -
4K Ultra 15 -
Margin of Error Low 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 4796 -
Solar Bay 19912 -
Port Royal 2920 -
Fire Strike 11732 -
Wild Life Extreme 8828 -
Night Raid 50295 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 92.8 img/sec 123.8 img/sec
Face Detection 54.2 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.47 Gpixels/sec 2.88 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.32 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.63 Gpixels/sec 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.7 Gpixels/sec 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 236.9 Gpixels/sec 290 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7148.8 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 508 562
DirectX 11 64 FPS 110 FPS
DirectX 12 47 FPS 63 FPS
GPU Compute 4222 Ops/s 5295 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2124 & 687 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 76 & 30 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) 4240 5554
Image Segmentation (HP) 9190 11873
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9374 15799
Face Detection (HP) 18335 25103
Pose Estimation (Q) 36989 51054
Text Classification (SP) 2035 2761
Machine Translation (HP) 2687 3137
Object Detection (SP) 5174 6750
Depth Estimation (Q) 16537 24450
Style Transfer (SP) 77854 101447
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A2000 Laptop and 1000 Laptop (Ada)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 12, 2021 February 26, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA106 AD107
Successor - Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada) -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (89th and 49th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-1463 MHz (configurable) -
Boost Clock 1035-1695 MHz (configurable) 1245-2360 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 20
Tensor Cores 80 80
Ray-tracing Cores 20 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 50-81 GPixel/s 60-113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 83-136 GTexel/s 100-189 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.3-8.7 TFLOPS
6.4-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 60-95 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 276 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 12 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 43.48 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

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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