NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 760.3GB/s)

Lower TDP (230W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +7%

29.77 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

384bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

64

8704

Shading Units

8192

272

TMUs

256

96

ROPs

96

272

Tensor Cores

256

68

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

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

230W

700 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

GA102-200-KD-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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