Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs A3000 Laptop
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Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
GB205-300-A1
Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
GA104
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell) 12 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 4 years older A3000 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 32 pipelines and 4096 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 significantly better (up to 48%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (28.6 vs 12.8 TFLOPS)
- Shows 49% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 79 vs 53 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A3000 Laptop
- 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 |
104 65 52 37 |
| The Witcher 3 | 154 130 93 50 |
114 89 66 33 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 224 173 126 67 |
164 122 89 43 |
| Far Cry 6 | 121 107 88 49 |
86 77 61 30 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 88 73 56 29 |
62 51 36 19 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 111 104 74 46 |
72 66 43 29 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 85 70 50 30 |
55 45 35 17 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 96 86 51 24 |
61 54 31 15 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 146 133 100 51 |
97 88 60 32 |
| 1080p High | 129 | 91 |
| 1080p Ultra | 107 | 73 |
| 1440p Ultra | 79 | 53 |
| 4K Ultra | 45 | 28 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12518 | 7575 |
| Solar Bay | 66557 | 33550 |
| Port Royal | 10955 | 4476 |
| Fire Strike | 32060 | 19662 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 3521 |
| Night Raid | - | 75487 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 238.8 img/sec | 140.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 147.6 img/sec | 73 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.73 Gpixels/sec | 4.08 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.27 Gpixels/sec | 5.52 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 10.7 Gpixels/sec | 4.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.68 Gpixels/sec | 0.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 778.4 Gpixels/sec | 414.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 23023.5 FPS | 12769.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 826 | 555 |
| DirectX 11 | 212 FPS | 102 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 94 FPS | 56 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7266 Ops/s | 5426 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 | 4552 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 28672 | 11804 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 26553 | 11986 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 53161 | 21457 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 120306 | 52678 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3406 | 2248 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5910 | 2727 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12573 | 6308 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 47957 | 20307 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 199379 | 111653 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) and A3000 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 18, 2025 | April 12, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | GB205-300-A1 | GA104 |
| Successor | - | - Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX or above | - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (12th and 55th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 848-1605 MHz (configurable) | 600-1080 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1605-2430 MHz (configurable) | 1180-1560 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 5888 | 4096 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 184 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 46 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 | 128 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 46 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 128-194 GPixel/s | 76-100 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 295-447 GTexel/s | 151-200 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-140 W (configurable) | 60-130 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 263 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 31.1 billion | 17.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | 118.25 MTr/mm² | 44.39 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR7 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 28000 Mbps | 11000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-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 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b | 1.4a |
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