NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2944
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 vs 29 January 2019
Pipelines 4096 vs 2944
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 855 MHz
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1590 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 608
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15107 vs 14242
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1380 MHz vs 855 MHz
Boost clock speed 1590 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 812 vs 608
PassMark - G3D Mark 15107 vs 14242

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
608
812
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
14242
15107
Name NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 608 812
PassMark - G3D Mark 14242 15107
Geekbench - OpenCL 80818
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10070
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5714

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA104 TU104
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 106 108
Price now $699.99
Type Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 37.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 855 MHz 1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 184.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.80 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 11.80 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2944
Pixel fill rate 92.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 184.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 13,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6