GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A2000

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1200 MHz

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,560

1,345

geekbench_metal

23,824

N/A

geekbench_opencl

55,724

73,310

geekbench_vulkan

65,164

69,089

passmark_directx_10

93

N/A

passmark_directx_11

124

N/A

passmark_directx_12

55

N/A

passmark_directx_9

211

N/A

passmark_g2d

888

N/A

passmark_g3d

15,586

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

7,614

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1080

RTX A2000

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,560

3,328 +30.0%

Shaders

2,560

3,328 +30.0%

TMUs

160

104 -35.0%

ROPs

64

48 -25.0%

SM Count

20

26 +30.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1607 MHz

562 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

6,144 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

57.60 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.873 TFLOPS

7.987 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

26

Tensor Cores

—

104

Power

TDP

180 W

70 W

TDP (W)

180

70 -61.1%

Suggested PSU

450 W

250 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Ampere

GPU Name

GP104

GA106

Generation

GeForce 10

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

16 nm

8 nm

Transistors

7,200 million

12,000 million

Die Size

314 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

22.9M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

6.1

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

167 mm 6.6 inches

Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

449 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

Quadro Turing

Successor

GeForce 20

Workstation Ada

View GeForce GTX 1080 Details View RTX A2000 Details