NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA RTX A4000

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and a Professional market GPU: 16GB VRAM RTX A4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1710MHz vs 1560MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A4000 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (140W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +55%

29.77 TFLOPS

RTX A4000

19.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +58%

17711

RTX A4000

11147

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +58%

79

RTX A4000

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +32%

139

RTX A4000

105

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +20%

181

RTX A4000

150

GeForce RTX 3080

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RTX A4000

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

6144

272

TMUs

192

96

ROPs

96

272

Tensor Cores

192

68

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

149.8 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

299.5 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.17 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.17 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA104

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-875-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

140W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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