RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB 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 GB/s 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 70 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameGA104
Market segmentLaptop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed1170 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors17,400 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)70 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate149.8of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form factor & compatibility

Information on RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB'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.

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14 GB/sof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is Radeon 780M.

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