Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs A30 PCIe

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated200
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data54.29
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35842048
Core clock speed930 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed1440 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate322.6129.6
Floating-point processing power10.32 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs22464
Tensor Cores22464
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB4 GB
Memory bus width3072 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1215 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth933.1 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.8
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA8.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 35 Watt

A30 PCIe has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 371.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between A30 PCIe and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that A30 PCIe is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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