RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile vs RTX A5000 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated97
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.82
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104no data
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)21 March 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 cores61444608
Core clock speed720 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1350 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate259.2no data
Floating-point processing power16.59 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs192no data
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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 datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt

RTX A5000 Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 43.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5000 Max-Q and RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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