GeForce RTX 2080 vs A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1710MHz vs 1440MHz)
A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
A30 PCIe
+2%
10320
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 20
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
56
2944
Shading Units
3584
184
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
96
368
Tensor Cores
224
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
24 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
165W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GA100
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
7 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
8.0
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
