NVIDIA Quadro GV100 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile Comparison

The NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile and the NVIDIA Quadro GV100 are professional GPUs built for entirely different machines, and the recorded data makes the split unmistakable. The A1000 Mobile is an integrated-class mobile part from the Ampere era, a 60 W chip fabricated on Samsung's 8 nm process with 4 GB of GDDR6 and a 128 bit bus. The Quadro GV100 is a workstation flagship from the Volta generation, a dual-slot 250 W board with 32 GB of HBM2 on a 4096 bit interface and a launch MSRP of 8,999 USD. In the two head-to-head benchmarks recorded in the database, Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan, the GV100 wins both, by margins of 67.5 percent and 66.5 percent respectively. Yet the percentile data adds nuance: the A1000 Mobile sits in the 85th percentile versus all GPUs in the database, while the GV100 sits in the 80th. This is a comparison of raw throughput against efficiency and modern feature support.

Where Each One Wins

The GV100 wins wherever raw compute and memory bandwidth dominate. Its 16.66 TFLOPS of FP32 more than triples the A1000 Mobile's 4.669 TFLOPS, its FP16 throughput of 33.32 TFLOPS (at a 2:1 ratio) far exceeds the mobile part's 4.669 TFLOPS (1:1), and its 640 tensor cores outnumber the A1000 Mobile's 64 by a factor of ten. Memory bandwidth is the widest gap of all: 868.4 GB/s on HBM2 versus 176.0 GB/s on GDDR6. For workloads that fit the database's compute tests, such as the Geekbench OpenCL and Vulkan suites, this hardware translates directly into the roughly two-thirds performance advantage recorded in the head-to-head results.

The A1000 Mobile wins on integration and modern graphics features. It is an IGP-class part with no power connectors, drawing 60 W through the board, whereas the GV100 needs a dual-slot chassis, one 8-pin connector, and a suggested 600 W power supply. The A1000 Mobile supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (feature level 12_2) with 16 dedicated RT cores for hardware ray tracing, something the GV100 entirely lacks, since Volta predates RT cores. The A1000 Mobile also rides the PCIe 4.0 bus, while the GV100 uses PCIe 3.0 x16. On paper the older flagship is faster; in practice the newer chip is the only one of the two that can accelerate DirectX ray tracing workloads at all.

The percentile figures reward the A1000 Mobile in another sense. Its 85th percentile ranking against all GPUs in the database is higher than the GV100's 80th, and its average benchmark score of 47743 sits within striking distance of rivals like the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (avgScore 48477, a delta of just -1.5 percent). The GV100's average score of 35520 lands it close to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile (35435, delta 0.2 percent) and the AMD Radeon Pro Duo (35860, delta -0.9 percent). Different benchmark mixes produce different averages, but the data shows both cards competing in respectable territory relative to their contemporaries.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster in the recorded benchmarks?

A: The Quadro GV100, decisively. It won both head-to-head tests: Geekbench OpenCL at 150004 versus 48703 (a 67.5 percent gap) and Geekbench Vulkan at 139526 versus 46782 (a 66.5 percent gap). The database records zero benchmark wins for the A1000 Mobile in this pairing.

Q: Can either card do hardware ray tracing?

A: Only the RTX A1000 Mobile. It has 16 RT cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2). The GV100 has no RT cores and tops out at DirectX 12 (12_1).

Q: How do their memory configurations compare?

A: The GV100 carries 32 GB of HBM2 across a 4096 bit bus for 868.4 GB/s of bandwidth. The A1000 Mobile has 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 128 bit bus delivering 176.0 GB/s. The capacity difference of eight times matters for large professional datasets.

Q: What power and physical requirements does each have?

A: The A1000 Mobile is an IGP-class mobile part with a 60 W TDP and no power connectors. The GV100 is a dual-slot desktop card with a 250 W TDP, one 8-pin connector, a suggested 600 W power supply, and dimensions of 267 mm long by 111 mm tall.

Q: Which GPU is newer?

A: The A1000 Mobile, released on March 29, 2022, versus the GV100's release on March 26, 2018. Both are now end-of-life products.

Q: How do the cards rank against the broader database?

A: The A1000 Mobile ranks in the 85th percentile versus all GPUs; the GV100 ranks in the 80th percentile, despite its dominance in the direct head-to-head tests.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Only two tests exist for both cards in the database, and the GV100 swept them. In Geekbench OpenCL, the GV100 scored 150004 against the A1000 Mobile's 48703, a 67.5 percent advantage for the Volta flagship. Geekbench Vulkan tells the same story: 139526 versus 46782, a 66.5 percent gap. The A1000 Mobile managed no wins across the recorded head-to-head suite.

The hardware explains the margins. The GV100's 5120 shading units, 320 TMUs, and 128 ROPs dwarf the A1000 Mobile's 2048 shading units, 64 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. Texture throughput is 520.6 GTexel/s versus 72.96 GTexel/s, and pixel fill rate is 208.3 GPixel/s versus 36.48 GPixel/s. Combined with nearly five times the memory bandwidth, the GV100's sweep is exactly what the spec sheet predicts.

The GV100's fuller benchmark record reinforces the point. It posted a PassMark G3D score of 19650 and a GPU compute score of 9069, along with PassMark DirectX results of 207 (DirectX 9), 168 (DirectX 11), 140 (DirectX 10), and 84 (DirectX 12), plus 836 in G2D. Interestingly, its DirectX 12 PassMark score of 84 is its weakest graphics result, consistent with a card that predates modern DirectX 12 Ultimate features. The A1000 Mobile has no comparable PassMark entries in the database, but its own Geekbench scores place it near the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, which sits just 1.5 percent ahead on average score, and clearly ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 6550M, Intel Arc A530M, and AMD Radeon RX 5600M, all of which trail it by roughly 2 percent.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ on nearly every line of the spec sheet. The A1000 Mobile uses the GA107 chip on Ampere architecture, built at Samsung on an 8 nm process, with 8,700 million transistors on a 200 mm² die (43.5M transistors per mm²). The GV100 uses the GV100 chip on Volta, built at TSMC on a 12 nm process, with 21,100 million transistors on an 815 mm² die (25.9M per mm²). The newer node gives the mobile part substantially higher transistor density despite its far smaller die.

Clocks favor the GV100: 1132 MHz base and 1627 MHz boost, versus 630 MHz base and 1140 MHz boost for the A1000 Mobile. Memory clocks run at 848 MHz (1696 Mbps effective) on HBM2 for the GV100 and 1375 MHz (11 Gbps effective) on GDDR6 for the A1000 Mobile.

The rendering resource counts split heavily toward the GV100 as covered above, including the 10x tensor core advantage (640 versus 64), though the A1000 Mobile is the only one with RT cores, at 16. FP16 behavior differs too: the GV100 doubles its FP16 rate relative to FP32 (33.32 versus 16.66 TFLOPS), while the A1000 Mobile runs FP16 at 1:1 with its 4.669 TFLOPS FP32 figure.

Power and form factor are opposites. The A1000 Mobile is an IGP with a 60 W TDP and no connectors; the GV100 is a dual-slot card with a 250 W TDP, one 8-pin connector, and a 600 W suggested power supply. Bus interfaces differ (PCIe 4.0 x8 versus PCIe 3.0 x16), and display outputs differ: the A1000 Mobile is portable-device dependent, while the GV100 offers four DisplayPort 1.4a outputs. Both support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4, and both are end-of-life, but they arrived four years apart, in 2022 and 2018 respectively, from different lineages: the A1000 Mobile succeeded Quadro Turing-M and leads to Ada-MW, while the GV100 followed Quadro Pascal and was succeeded by Quadro Turing.

Architecture Differences

Ampere versus Volta is the core divide. The GV100's Volta design represents an older philosophy: a giant 815 mm² die on TSMC's 12 nm process, packed with 21,100 million transistors and 640 tensor cores for FP16-heavy professional compute, fed by HBM2 memory across a 4096 bit bus. It has no RT cores because hardware ray tracing units did not exist in this generation, and its DirectX support stops at feature level 12_1.

The A1000 Mobile's Ampere design, on the GA107 chip, takes the opposite approach: a compact 200 mm² die on Samsung's 8 nm node, achieving higher transistor density (43.5M per mm² versus 25.9M per mm²), with a smaller but modern resource set that includes 16 RT cores and DirectX 12 Ultimate support. Its tensor core count of 64 is modest, and its FP16 runs at a 1:1 ratio with FP32 rather than Volta's 2:1 throughput advantage. The architectural trade is clear: the GV100 maximizes throughput per card, while Ampere maximizes capability and efficiency per transistor, adding ray tracing and a newer API feature set that the older flagship simply cannot access.

The Verdict

The data supports a clean split. Pick the Quadro GV100 if maximum compute throughput and memory capacity are the priority: it wins every recorded head-to-head benchmark by roughly two-thirds, offers 32 GB of HBM2 with 868.4 GB/s of bandwidth, delivers 16.66 TFLOPS FP32 and 33.32 TFLOPS FP16 with 640 tensor cores, and posts a strong PassMark record including 19650 in G3D. It demands a desktop workstation with a dual-slot space, a 250 W power budget, and a 600 W class power supply.

Pick the RTX A1000 Mobile if the machine is a thin portable: its 60 W TDP and connector-free IGP format make the GV100 impossible in the same chassis, and it still ranks in the 85th percentile versus all GPUs in the database, higher than the GV100's 80th. It is also the only one of the two with RT cores and DirectX 12 Ultimate support, so any ray tracing workload is exclusive to it by default. The caveat is capacity: 4 GB of GDDR6 and 176.0 GB/s of bandwidth cannot carry the large professional datasets the GV100 handles comfortably.

Neither card is a current product; both are end-of-life. The benchmark data shows the GV100 as the raw performance choice and the A1000 Mobile as the efficient, feature-modern mobile choice, and the recorded results leave little middle ground between them.