Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop vs 3000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
GA104
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A3000 Mobile 6 GB with 32 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer 3000 Mobile (Ada) 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs better (up to 22%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 55% higher maximum theoretical performance (19.9 vs 12.8 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 61 vs 53 FPS
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Achieves 33% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (119K vs 89K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 104 65 52 37 |
117 73 60 41 |
| The Witcher 3 | 114 89 66 33 |
130 103 76 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 164 122 89 43 |
187 135 101 49 |
| Far Cry 6 | 86 77 61 30 |
97 86 69 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 62 51 36 19 |
67 55 42 23 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 72 66 43 29 |
85 73 53 36 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 55 45 35 17 |
68 49 37 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 61 54 31 15 |
71 66 36 17 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 97 88 60 32 |
113 103 73 37 |
| 1080p High | 91 | 104 |
| 1080p Ultra | 73 | 83 |
| 1440p Ultra | 53 | 61 |
| 4K Ultra | 28 | 34 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 7575 | 8373 |
| Solar Bay | 33550 | 36647 |
| Port Royal | 4476 | 5210 |
| Fire Strike | 19662 | 20658 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 3521 | 14678 |
| Night Raid | 75487 | 51077 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 140.7 img/sec | 196.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 73 img/sec | 118.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.08 Gpixels/sec | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.52 Gpixels/sec | 5.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.3 Gpixels/sec | 6.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.9 Gpixels/sec | 1.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 414.8 Gpixels/sec | 573 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 12769.8 FPS | 17661.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 555 | 542 |
| DirectX 11 | 102 FPS | 141 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 56 FPS | 79 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 5426 Ops/s | 6048 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 4552 | 7093 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 11804 | 14759 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 11986 | 23321 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 21457 | 29211 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 52678 | 87917 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2248 | 3395 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2727 | 3464 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6308 | 8181 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 20307 | 30150 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 111653 | 167055 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop and 3000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 12, 2021 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA104 | AD106 |
| Successor | - Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (61st and 31st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 600-1080 MHz (configurable) | - |
| Boost Clock | 1180-1560 MHz (configurable) | 1165-2160 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 128 | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 76-100 GPixel/s | 56-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 151-200 GTexel/s | 168-311 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-130 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 188 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17.4 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.39 MTr/mm² | 121.81 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 11000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | Yes | Yes |
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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