RTX A500 and RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation - video card comparison

RTX A500

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA107

AD106

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1695 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

115 Watt

Texture fill rate

113.3

244.1

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14 GB/s

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3