NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA RTX A400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1762MHz vs 1733MHz)
Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+227%
8.873 TFLOPS
RTX A400
2.706 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 10
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1417 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
6
2560
Shading Units
768
160
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
24
-
RT Cores
6
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA107
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
