RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs Radeon RX Vega M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking320not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency77.97no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVegaGA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date1 February 2018 (6 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years 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 cores5124096
Core clock speed720 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speed1190 MHz1170 MHz
Number of transistors4,500 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate38.08149.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs32128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data336.0 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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2018 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 70 Watt

RX Vega M has 366.7% lower power consumption.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega M and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega M is a desktop card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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