NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2610MHz vs 2175MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
More VRAM (20GB vs 12GB)
Lower TDP (130W vs 285W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+49%
40.09 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
26.73 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+94%
9224
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
4737
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB
+90%
938
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
492
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 40
Generation
Workstation Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
2610 MHz
Boost Clock
2175 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
160bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
60
SM Count
48
7680
Shading Units
6144
240
TMUs
192
80
ROPs
64
240
Tensor Cores
192
60
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
208.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
139.2 GPixel/s
626.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
417.6 GTexel/s
40.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.73 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.73 TFLOPS
626.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
285W
TDP
130W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
AD104
AD104-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
295 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
