NVIDIA RTX A3000 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA RTX A3000 12 GB offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 4096 vs 2048), more VRAM (12 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (192 bit vs 64 bit), higher memory bandwidth (336 GB/s vs 112 GB/s), and more L2 cache (4 MB vs 1 MB). NVIDIA RTX A500 offers a higher boost clock (1537 MHz vs 1440 MHz).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores4096
CUDA cores2048
Boost1440 MHz
Boost1537 MHz
VRAM12 GB
VRAM4 GB
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus64 bit
TGP60–130 W
TGP20–60 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX A Mobile
SeriesRTX A Mobile
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU architectureAmpere
GPU chipGA104
GPU chipGA107
Chip variantQN20-M2-B-KB-A1
FoundrySamsung
FoundrySamsung
Process node8 nm
Process node8 nm
Die size392 mm²
Die size200 mm²
Transistors17.4 billion
Transistors8.7 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Release dateMarch 22, 2022
Release dateMarch 22, 2022
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores4096
CUDA cores2048
32× SM
16× SM
Boost clock1440 MHz
Boost clock1537 MHz
Memory
VRAM12 GB
VRAM4 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus64 bit
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Memory speed14 Gb/s
Bandwidth336 GB/s
Bandwidth112 GB/s
TGP
TGP range60 - 130 W
TGP range20 - 60 W
Cache
L2 cache4 MB
L2 cache1 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs128
TMUs64
ROPs64
ROPs32
RT cores32
RT cores16
Tensor cores128
Tensor cores64
SM blocks32
SM blocks16
AI
AI performanceN/A
AI performanceN/A