NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Lower TDP (165W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2520MHz vs 1440MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 933.1GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +425%

54.19 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

Tesla Ampere

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR7

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

84

3584

Shading Units

10752

224

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

128

224

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GB203

-

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

0

54.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

826 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

10.1

N/A

Shader Model

6.8

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