NVIDIA started RTX A3000 Mobile sales 12 April 2021. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 12 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 130 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP).

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 33.09% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking	151
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	GA104
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	12 April 2021 (3 years old)

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1080 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	17,400 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	237.6	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on RTX A3000 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

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	12 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

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

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.6
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.2
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 performance 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 33.09

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX A3000 Mobile 71308

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX A3000 Mobile 25990

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX A3000 Mobile 29996

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	99
1440p	46
4K	42

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	79
Battlefield 5	100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	85−90
Cyberpunk 2077	66
Far Cry 5	111
Far Cry New Dawn	103
Forza Horizon 4	100−110
Hitman 3	146
Horizon Zero Dawn	104
Red Dead Redemption 2	50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	75−80
Watch Dogs: Legion	93

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	68
Battlefield 5	100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	85−90
Cyberpunk 2077	53
Far Cry 5	103
Far Cry New Dawn	98
Forza Horizon 4	100−110
Hitman 3	124
Horizon Zero Dawn	89
Metro Exodus	55−60
Red Dead Redemption 2	50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	151
Watch Dogs: Legion	86

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	51
Battlefield 5	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	43
Far Cry 5	93
Far Cry New Dawn	87
Forza Horizon 4	100−110
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	61
Watch Dogs: Legion	39

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55
Hitman 3	55−60
Horizon Zero Dawn	45−50
Metro Exodus	35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2	24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	45−50

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40
Battlefield 5	70−75
Cyberpunk 2077	27
Far Cry 5	69
Far Cry New Dawn	60−65
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	27−30
Hitman 3	30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn	24−27
Metro Exodus	21−24
Red Dead Redemption 2	18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	24−27
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	20−22
Battlefield 5	40−45
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Far Cry 5	36
Far Cry New Dawn	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18

Relative perfomance

Overall RTX A3000 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

AMD Radeon RX 6600M 106.07

AMD Radeon RX 6700M 104.53

AMD Radeon RX 6800M 103.75

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 100

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile 97.91

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 96.37

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 91.78

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A3000 Mobile is Radeon RX 6800M, which is faster by 4% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.