NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB

  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 855 MHz
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1440 MHz
  • Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 244.1 GTexel/s vs 184.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 13% higher pipelines: 4608 vs 4096
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 759 vs 596
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19586 vs 13843
  • Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 109087 vs 81157
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed 1395 MHz vs 855 MHz
Boost clock speed 1695 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Texture fill rate 244.1 GTexel/s vs 184.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4608 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 759 vs 596
PassMark - G3D Mark 19586 vs 13843
Geekbench - OpenCL 109087 vs 81157

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
596
759
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13843
19586
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
81157
109087
Name NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 596 759
PassMark - G3D Mark 13843 19586
Geekbench - OpenCL 81157 109087
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 319.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 36.174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 218.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1585.54

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Code name GA104 AD106
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 2023
Place in performance rating 119 80

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 855 MHz 1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 184.3 GFLOPS (1:64) 244.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.80 TFLOPS (1:1) 15.62 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 11.80 TFLOPS 15.62 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 4608
Pixel fill rate 92.16 GPixel/s 81.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 184.3 GTexel/s 244.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Form factor IGP

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6