NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1733MHz vs 1440MHz)

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 352.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

8.873 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +16%

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA100

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

2

AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

3

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

7

AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX