RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated10
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.29
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104AD103
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 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 cores40967680
Core clock speed495 MHz2070 MHz
Boost clock speed1170 MHz2580 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt210 Watt
Texture fill rate149.8619.2
Floating-point processing power9.585 TFLOPS39.63 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs128240
Tensor Cores128240
Ray Tracing Cores3260

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB24 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s432.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 210 Watt

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB has 200% lower power consumption.

RTX 4500 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB and RTX 4500 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation card while RTX 4500 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB
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