NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA A2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +557%

29.77 TFLOPS

A2

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Sep 2020

Quadro

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

8704

40

TMUs

272

32

ROPs

96

40

Tensor Cores

272

10

RT Cores

68

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

28.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

320W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

6.6

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