NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 159.96 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

30% slightly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

96 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

64 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

460% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1954.21 points

221% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

84002 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

76373 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58378 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

73300 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

69543 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

185% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

70 W

157% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

92% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

122% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3328

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

53% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

129th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs RTX A2000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the RTX A2000 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than the RTX A2000.