NVIDIA started RTX A3000 Mobile sales 12 April 2021. This is an Ampere architecture notebook card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 264.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 70 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX A3000 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	170
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	31.69	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA104
Market segment	Mobile workstation
Release date	12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX A3000 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A3000 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	600 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1230 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	17,400 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	157.4	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	10.08 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	64	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	128	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	128	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	32	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A3000 Mobile and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A3000 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	264.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A3000 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by RTX A3000 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A3000 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX A3000 Mobile 32.36

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12468

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RTX A3000 Mobile 25990

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RTX A3000 Mobile 71308

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RTX A3000 Mobile 19710

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX A3000 Mobile 29996

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RTX A3000 Mobile 7320

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A3000 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	104
1440p	52
4K	44

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	79
Battlefield 5	100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	66
Far Cry 5	70−75
Far Cry New Dawn	80−85
Forza Horizon 4	170−180
Hitman 3	65−70
Horizon Zero Dawn	140−150
Metro Exodus	100−110
Red Dead Redemption 2	80−85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	110−120
Watch Dogs: Legion	110−120

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	68
Battlefield 5	100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	53
Far Cry 5	70−75
Far Cry New Dawn	80−85
Forza Horizon 4	170−180
Hitman 3	65−70
Horizon Zero Dawn	140−150
Metro Exodus	100−110
Red Dead Redemption 2	80−85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	134
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	65−70
Watch Dogs: Legion	110−120

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70−75
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	51
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	43
Far Cry 5	70−75
Forza Horizon 4	170−180
Hitman 3	65−70
Horizon Zero Dawn	114
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	114
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	61
Watch Dogs: Legion	39

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

80−85

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	60−65
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	30−35
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Cyberpunk 2077	27
Far Cry 5	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	180−190
Hitman 3	40−45
Horizon Zero Dawn	65−70
Metro Exodus	60−65
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	86
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion	170−180

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

55−60

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	30−35
Far Cry New Dawn	27−30
Hitman 3	24−27
Horizon Zero Dawn	160−170
Metro Exodus	40−45
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	18−20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	20−22
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	45−50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	51
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

27−30

Closest competitors

RTX A3000 Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among mobile workstation graphics cards.

Radeon Pro Vega 64 103.62

Quadro P5200 Max-Q 100.8

Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q 100.19

RTX A3000 Mobile 100

Radeon Pro Vega 56 99.07

Quadro P5200 97.31

Quadro P5000 Mobile 92.71

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A3000 Mobile is Radeon Pro Vega 56, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.