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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 33% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3072
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 23 July 2019
Pipelines	4096 vs 3072
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 855 MHz
Around 26% higher boost clock speed: 1815 MHz vs 1440 MHz
8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 920 vs 597
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19532 vs 13864
Around 43% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 115519 vs 81009

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1650 MHz vs 855 MHz
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	920 vs 597
PassMark - G3D Mark	19532 vs 13864
Geekbench - OpenCL	115519 vs 81009

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

597

920

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13864

19532

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

81009

115519

Name	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
PassMark - G2D Mark	597	920
PassMark - G3D Mark	13864	19532
Geekbench - OpenCL	81009	115519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		338.122
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4571.03
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		190.349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1653.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Code name	GA104	TU104
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	23 July 2019
Place in performance rating	111	109
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1815 MHz
Core clock speed	855 MHz	1650 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	3072
Pixel fill rate	92.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	184.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million
CUDA cores		3072
Maximum GPU temperature		89 C
Render output units		64
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent
Display Port		1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays		4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	6 pin + 8 pin
Height		4.556” (115.7mm)
Length		10.5” (266.74mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
Width		2-Slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	496 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Technologies
Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready