NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

160% significantly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

697.32 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40962 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

93% significantly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1537 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

181% significantly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2022 March

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 A500 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming performance.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the RTX A500 Laptop.