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).

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

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 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 611
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15107 vs 14608

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 611
PassMark - G3D Mark	15107 vs 14608

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

611

812

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14608

15107

Name	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	611	812
PassMark - G3D Mark	14608	15107
Geekbench - OpenCL	82764
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		10098
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	104	106
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