NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4500

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA RTX A4500

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and a Professional market GPU: 20GB VRAM RTX A4500 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 4% (1710MHz vs 1650MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 640.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A4500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (20GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (200W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +25%

29.77 TFLOPS

RTX A4500

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +38%

17711

RTX A4500

12823

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +21%

79

RTX A4500

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +11%

139

RTX A4500

125

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +3%

181

RTX A4500

175

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

RTX A4500

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 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

1050 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

320bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

640.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

7168

272

TMUs

224

96

ROPs

96

272

Tensor Cores

224

68

RT Cores

56

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

369.6 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.65 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

369.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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