NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 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

6082 points

23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

134 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

101 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2896.29 points

377% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

139395 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

122155 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

88144 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

122155 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

101808 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

1575 MHz

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

151.2 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

302.4 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

19.35 TFLOPS

118% 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 597

81st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 A5000 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the RTX A5000 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1080 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A5000 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 140 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A5000 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1080.