NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +122%

10.07 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

10

2944

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

40

46

RT Cores

10

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

60W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA107

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

Unknown

545 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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