Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop vs 4000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
GA104
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A4500 Mobile 16 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 1 year newer 4000 Mobile (Ada) 12 GB that utilizes 58 pipelines and 7424 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 A4500 Laptop
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs significantly better (up to 83%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 92% higher maximum theoretical performance (33.6 vs 17.5 TFLOPS)
- Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 99 vs 62 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Has 26% more shading units (7424 vs 5888)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 116 73 60 41 |
159 108 95 69 |
| The Witcher 3 | 131 104 74 40 |
180 155 112 58 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 190 141 103 50 |
262 205 144 80 |
| Far Cry 6 | 98 89 70 37 |
140 128 106 64 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 70 57 43 24 |
110 92 71 36 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 86 77 55 36 |
137 128 96 65 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 69 53 37 21 |
97 82 66 38 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 72 68 39 17 |
120 109 71 30 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 116 104 75 38 |
190 174 132 71 |
| 1080p High | 105 | 155 |
| 1080p Ultra | 85 | 131 |
| 1440p Ultra | 62 | 99 |
| 4K Ultra | 34 | 57 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9411 | 15498 |
| Solar Bay | 39802 | 67951 |
| Port Royal | 5881 | 10118 |
| Fire Strike | 25127 | 36295 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19741 | - |
| Night Raid | 65181 | 130940 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 158.7 img/sec | 187.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 115.8 img/sec | 139.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.95 Gpixels/sec | 5.71 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.2 Gpixels/sec | 8.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.85 Gpixels/sec | 8.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.13 Gpixels/sec | 1.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 505.2 Gpixels/sec | 577.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 15517.5 FPS | 16849 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 706 | 714 |
| DirectX 11 | 132 FPS | 214 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 76 FPS | 96 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6636 Ops/s | 8532 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) | 6159 | 8658 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 12031 | 17759 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 15490 | 28281 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 29614 | 37971 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 65582 | 113009 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1918 | 3535 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3097 | 4038 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8192 | 11288 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 23635 | 38963 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 142647 | 236141 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop and 4000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 22, 2022 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA104 | AD104 |
| Successor | - Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (29th and 12th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 510-1035 MHz (configurable) | - |
| Boost Clock | 1035-1485 MHz (configurable) | 1465-2260 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 7424 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 184 | 232 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 46 | 58 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | 232 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 46 | 58 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 48MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 99-143 GPixel/s | 117-181 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 190-273 GTexel/s | 340-524 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-140 W (configurable) | 60-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17.4 billion | 35.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.39 MTr/mm² | 121.77 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-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 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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