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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

The Nvidia RTX 3000 Ada Generation, not to be confused with the A3000, P3000 or RTX 3000 Turing Generation, is a higher-end professional graphics card for use in laptops that sports 4,608 CUDA cores and 8 GB of ECC GDDR6 VRAM (error correction can be turned off if desired). It would be fair to say that this is a GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop in disguise; consequently, the graphics card is fast enough for many games at 1440p with quality set to High. Brought into existence in 2023, the RTX 3000 leverages TSMC's 5 nm process and Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture to achieve very decent performance combined with moderate power consumption. The Nvidia-recommended TGP range for the card is very wide at 35 W to 140 W leading to bizarre performance differences between different systems powered by what is supposed to be the same product.

Quadro series graphics cards ship with much different BIOS and drivers than GeForce cards and are targeted at professional use rather than gaming. Commercial product design, large-scale calculations, simulation, data mining, 24 x 7 operation, certified drivers - if any of this sounds familiar, then a Quadro card will make you happy.

Architecture and Features

Ada Lovelace brings a range of improvements over older graphics cards utilizing the outgoing Ampere architecture. It's not just a better manufacturing process and a higher number of CUDA cores that we have here (up to 16,384 versus 10,752); under-the-hood refinements are plentiful, including an immensely larger L2 cache, an optimized ray tracing routine (a smarter technique is used to determine what is transparent and what isn't), and other changes. Naturally, these graphics cards can both encode and decode some of the most widely used video codecs, AVC, HEVC and AV1 included; they also support a host of Nvidia technologies, including Optimus and DLSS 3, and they can certainly be used for various AI tasks.

The RTX 3000 Ada features 36 RT cores of the 3rd generation, 144 Tensor cores of the 4th generation and 4,608 CUDA cores, making it ~11% inferior to the RTX 3500 Ada Generation as long as we disregard clock speed differences. (The 3500 also has more VRAM). The RTX 3000 comes with 8 GB of 128-bit wide ECC GDDR6 memory for throughput of ~256 GB/s. The fact that error correction is present here proves that the graphics adapter is indeed targeted at professional users, and it can be disabled if desired.

Just like Ampere-based cards, the RTX 3000 makes use of the PCI-Express 4 protocol. 8K SUHD monitors are supported, however, DP 1.4a video outputs can potentially prove to be a bottleneck down the line.

Performance

Having reviewed the Dell Precision 5480 and its 50 W RTX 3000 Ada in September 2023, we can firmly say the graphics card is in the same league as the RTX 4060 Laptop and the RTX 4050 Laptop, despite sharing most of its specifications with the RTX 4070 Laptop. 48 seconds in the Blender 3.3 Classroom CUDA test and a 3DMark 11 Performance GPU score of less than 30,000 points are nothing to write home about. The GPU's gaming talents are not mind-blowing, either, although it is certainly capable enough for 1080p gaming.

Nvidia's marketing materials mention "up to 20 TFLOPS" of performance, a very noticeable improvement over 14.5 TFLOPS delivered by the RTX 2000 Ada Generation. Your mileage may vary depending on how competent the cooling solution of your laptop is and how high the TGP power target of the graphics card is. A 100 W RTX 3000 Ada might be able to come close to the average RTX 4070 Laptop.

One other thing worth mentioning is that enabling error correction appears to reduce the amount of video memory that is available to applications and games by up to a gigabyte.

Power consumption

Nvidia no longer divides its laptop graphics cards into Max-Q and non-max-Q models. Instead, laptop makers are free to set the TGP according to their needs, and the range can sometimes be shockingly wide. This is especially the case for the RTX 3000, as the lowest value recommended for it sits at just 35 W while the highest is 300% higher at 140 W (this most likely includes Dynamic Boost). This is the kind of delta that we've be seeing on consumer-grade laptops featuring the latest GeForce RTX cards.

Last but not the least, the improved 5 nm process (TSMC 4N) the RTX 3000 Ada is built with makes for very decent energy efficiency, as of mid 2023.

RTX Ada Generation Laptop GPU Series

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 9728 @ 0.93 - 1.68 GHz256 Bit @ 20000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 7424 192 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 5120 192 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 4608 128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 3072 128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 2560 96 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU compare 2048 64 Bit @ 12000 MHz
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
Pipelines4608 - unified
TMUs144
ROPs48
Raytracing Cores36
Tensor / AI Cores144
CacheL2: 32 MB
Memory Speed16000 effective = 2000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB
Shared Memoryno
Memory Bandwidth256 GB/s
APIDirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3
Power Consumption115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
technology5 nm
PCIe4.0 x16
Displays4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement21.03.2023
Link to Manufacturer Pageimages.nvidia.com
PredecessorQuadro RTX 3000 (Laptop)

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 7959     avg: 8155     median: 8155 (22%)     max: 8351 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 20233     avg: 20571     median: 20570.5 (23%)     max: 20908 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 25317     avg: 26200     median: 26200 (36%)     max: 27083 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 28283     avg: 28847     median: 28847 (25%)     max: 29411 Points
SPECviewperf 12
specvp12 sw-03 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
min: 159.9     avg: 171.9     median: 171.9 (43%)     max: 183.9 fps
specvp12 snx-02 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
min: 163.39     avg: 169.1     median: 169.1 (25%)     max: 174.85 fps
specvp12 showcase-01 +
specvp12 maya-04 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
min: 133.1     avg: 138     median: 138 (38%)     max: 142.99 fps
specvp12 creo-01 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
min: 123.21     avg: 136.8     median: 136.8 (55%)     max: 150.32 fps
specvp12 catia-04 +
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
min: 174.33     avg: 186.4     median: 186.4 (31%)     max: 198.45 fps
SPECviewperf 13 specvp13 sw-04 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 sw-04
min: 162.23     avg: 170.7     median: 170.7 (46%)     max: 179.23 fps
specvp13 snx-03 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 snx-03
min: 296.88     avg: 304.5     median: 304.5 (34%)     max: 312.07 fps
specvp13 showcase-02 +
specvp13 medical-02 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 medical-02
min: 111.4     avg: 139.9     median: 139.9 (29%)     max: 168.45 fps
specvp13 maya-05 +
specvp13 energy-02 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 energy-02
min: 56.97     avg: 57.7     median: 57.7 (19%)     max: 58.34 fps
specvp13 creo-02 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 creo-02
min: 245.25     avg: 250.2     median: 250.2 (37%)     max: 255.24 fps
specvp13 catia-05 +
SPECviewperf 13 - specvp13 catia-05
min: 273.29     avg: 292     median: 292 (32%)     max: 310.7 fps
specvp13 3dsmax-06 +
SPECviewperf 2020 specvp2020 solidworks-07 4k +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 solidworks-07 4k
77.9 fps (23%)
specvp2020 solidworks-07 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 solidworks-07 1080p
193.6 fps (52%)
specvp2020 solidworks-05 1080p +
specvp2020 snx-04 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 snx-04 1080p
min: 290.6     avg: 302.5     median: 302.5 (49%)     max: 314.39 fps
specvp2020 medical-03 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 medical-03 1080p
min: 55.19     avg: 76.1     median: 76.1 (78%)     max: 96.95 fps
specvp2020 maya-06 1080p +
specvp2020 energy-03 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 energy-03 1080p
min: 57.2     avg: 57.5     median: 57.5 (46%)     max: 57.85 fps
specvp2020 creo-03 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 creo-03 1080p
min: 113.79     avg: 125.2     median: 125.2 (62%)     max: 136.69 fps
specvp2020 catia-06 1080p +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 catia-06 1080p
min: 78.93     avg: 81.4     median: 81.4 (52%)     max: 83.77 fps
specvp2020 3dsmax-07 1080p +
specvp2020 solidworks-05 4k +
specvp2020 snx-04 4k +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 snx-04 4k
min: 189.79     avg: 190.6     median: 190.6 (20%)     max: 191.49 fps
specvp2020 medical-03 4k +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 medical-03 4k
min: 19.91     avg: 28.2     median: 28.2 (27%)     max: 36.49 fps
specvp2020 maya-06 4k +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 maya-06 4k
min: 138.82     avg: 139.8     median: 139.8 (23%)     max: 140.78 fps
specvp2020 energy-03 4k +
specvp2020 creo-03 4k +
SPECviewperf 2020 - specvp2020 creo-03 4k
min: 51.74     avg: 63.3     median: 63.3 (30%)     max: 74.79 fps
specvp2020 catia-06 4k +
specvp2020 3dsmax-07 4k +
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit +
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
99.6 % (100%)
Basemark GPU 1.2 - Basemark GPU 1.2 Vulkan Official Medium Offscreen 1080
min: 900     avg: 903     median: 902.5 (6%)     max: 905 fps
Basemark GPU 1.2 - Basemark GPU 1.2 Vulkan Official High Offscreen 2160
3.6 fps (1%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU OpenCL
min: 91678     avg: 92046     median: 92045.5 (27%)     max: 92413 points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU Vulkan
min: 88420     avg: 90522     median: 90521.5 (30%)     max: 92623 points
Power Consumption - Furmark Stress Test Power Consumption - external Monitor *
79.8 Watt (11%)
05101520253035404550556065707580Tooltip
Emissions Witcher 3 Fan Noise +
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Phantom Liberty

Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Phantom Liberty

2023
low 1920x1080
87.2  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
72.7  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
60.7  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
52.1  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Additional Benchmarks
Low Preset (FSR off) 1280x720
112
Ray Tracing Ultra Preset (DLSS off) 1920x1080
26.2
low 1920x1080
92  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
78.8  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
70.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
68.8  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
F1 22

F1 22

2022
low 1920x1080
162.7 183.6 ~ 173 fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
159.6 168 ~ 164 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
127.5 133.4 ~ 130 fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
50.4 51.1 ~ 51 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Additional Benchmarks
Ultra Low Preset 16xAF TAA 1280x720
229
244
low 1920x1080
153.9 156 ~ 155 fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
125.4 131.4 ~ 128 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
88 88.5 ~ 88 fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
69 70.2 ~ 70 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Additional Benchmarks
Lowest Preset (DX12) 1280x720
250.1
low 1920x1080
92.3  fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
72.4  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
61.2  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
56.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Strange Brigade

Strange Brigade

2018
low 1280x720
282 400 ~ 341 fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
182.4 191.3 ~ 187 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
151.4 160.1 ~ 156 fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
132.5 140.7 ~ 137 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Far Cry 5

Far Cry 5

2018
low 1280x720
115 155 ~ 135 fps    + Compare + 📈 Graph
med. 1920x1080
105 116 ~ 111 fps    + Compare + 📈 Graph
high 1920x1080
104 106 ~ 105 fps    + Compare + 📈 Graph
ultra 1920x1080
96 101 ~ 99 fps    + Compare + 📈 Graph
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
low 1280x720
109.9 152 ~ 131 fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
102.1 126.8 ~ 114 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
76.7 102 ~ 89 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
low 1280x720
128.8 155.1 ~ 142 fps    + Compare
med. 1920x1080
91.9 108 ~ 100 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
72.9 78.9 ~ 76 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.
low 1280x720
168 175.7 ~ 172 fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
151.3 160.8 ~ 156 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
136 151.5 ~ 144 fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
123.3 142.9 ~ 133 fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
low 1024x768
344 364.1 ~ 354 fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
242.5 249.5 ~ 246 fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
145.8 150.1 ~ 148 fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
78.7 79.5 ~ 79 fps    + Compare + 📈 Graph
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
GTA V

GTA V

2015
low 1024x768
183.2  fps    + Compare
med. 1366x768
177  fps    + Compare
high 1920x1080
164.1  fps    + Compare
ultra 1920x1080
88.2  fps    + Compare
» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.
Additional Benchmarks
Normal/Off 4xAF 1920x1080
175.1
Lowest Settings possible 1920x1080
180
lowmed.highultraQHD4K
Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 Phantom Liberty87.272.760.752.1
Baldur's Gate 39278.870.168.8
F1 2217316413051
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands1551288870
Cyberpunk 2077 1.692.372.461.256.2
Strange Brigade341187156137
Far Cry 513511110599
X-Plane 11.1113111489
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark14210076
Dota 2 Reborn172156144133
The Witcher 335424614879
GTA V183.2177164.188.2
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Notebook reviews with NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU graphics card

Nvidia RTX 3000 Ada performance debut: Dell Precision 5480 workstation review

Nvidia RTX 3000 Ada performance debut: Dell Precision 5480 workstation review

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