NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1710MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +606%

30.64 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1017%

5697

A16 PCIe

510

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

1280

280

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

40

70

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA107

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

350W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

6.6

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