Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs 3000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
GB205-300-A1
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell) 12 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 2 years older 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 Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
- Performs better (up to 22%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 30% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 79 vs 61 FPS
- 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (28.6 vs 19.9 TFLOPS)
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 2.6x higher memory bandwidth: 672 vs 256 GB/s
- Achieves 40% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 119K)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
- Has 28% more shading units (5888 vs 4608)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 3000 Laptop (Ada)
- Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 137 87 76 56 |
117 73 60 41 |
| The Witcher 3 | 154 130 93 50 |
130 103 76 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 224 173 126 67 |
187 135 101 49 |
| Far Cry 6 | 121 107 88 49 |
97 86 69 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 88 73 56 29 |
67 55 42 23 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 111 104 74 46 |
85 73 53 36 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 85 70 50 30 |
68 49 37 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 96 86 51 24 |
71 66 36 17 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 146 133 100 51 |
113 103 73 37 |
| 1080p High | 129 | 104 |
| 1080p Ultra | 107 | 83 |
| 1440p Ultra | 79 | 61 |
| 4K Ultra | 45 | 34 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12518 | 8373 |
| Solar Bay | 66557 | 36647 |
| Port Royal | 10955 | 5210 |
| Fire Strike | 32060 | 20658 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 14678 |
| Night Raid | - | 51077 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 238.8 img/sec | 196.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 147.6 img/sec | 118.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.73 Gpixels/sec | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.27 Gpixels/sec | 5.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 10.7 Gpixels/sec | 6.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.68 Gpixels/sec | 1.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 778.4 Gpixels/sec | 573 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 23023.5 FPS | 17661.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 826 | 542 |
| DirectX 11 | 212 FPS | 141 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 94 FPS | 79 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7266 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) | 9790 | 7093 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 28672 | 14759 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 26553 | 23321 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 53161 | 29211 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 120306 | 87917 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3406 | 3395 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5910 | 3464 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12573 | 8181 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 47957 | 30150 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 199379 | 167055 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) and 3000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 18, 2025 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GB205-300-A1 | AD106 |
| Successor | - | - Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (12th and 31st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 848-1605 MHz (configurable) | - |
| Boost Clock | 1605-2430 MHz (configurable) | 1165-2160 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 184 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 46 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 46 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 128-194 GPixel/s | 56-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 295-447 GTexel/s | 168-311 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-140 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 263 mm² | 188 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 31.1 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 118.25 MTr/mm² | 121.81 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | Yes |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 12 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4a |
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