RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile vs RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated33
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.61
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD106no data
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores46087424
Core clock speed1395 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistors22,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate244.1no data
Floating-point processing power15.62 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs144no data
Tensor Cores144no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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

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 amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 150 Watt

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation has 30.4% lower power consumption.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation card while RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Mobile
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