NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q 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 768.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (230W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +10%

30.64 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

64

8960

Shading Units

8192

280

TMUs

256

96

ROPs

96

280

Tensor Cores

256

70

RT Cores

64

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

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Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

230W

750 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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-220-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

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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