NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm

Boost clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3710
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3710

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917 vs 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917 vs 3710

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3710

8917

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3710

8917

Name	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	502
PassMark - G3D Mark	12521
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20429
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20429
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3710	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3710	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
Geekbench - OpenCL	78882

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.0
Code name	GA104	Vega 10
Place in performance rating	168	134
Launch date		1 June 2018
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz	1301 MHz
Core clock speed	1080 MHz	1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	199.7 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	12.78 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	12.78 TFLOPS
Pipelines	4096
Pixel fill rate	99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	199.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	288 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6