NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 1020.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

7111 points

44% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

175 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

88 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

119 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

65 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

11018 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

3139.35 points

417% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

124547 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

116149 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

83390 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

122638 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

127645 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

118% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

448 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

140 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

116% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

6144

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

192

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2021 April

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 A4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A4000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the RTX A4000 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the RTX A4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 over the GeForce GTX 1080.