NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (230W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2520MHz vs 1695MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 12Q

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +95%

54.19 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

64

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

8192

Shading Units

10752

256

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

128

256

Tensor Cores

336

64

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GB203

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GPU Variant

GB203

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

628 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

230W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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