NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A6000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A6000

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 4711.00 significantly less expensive

$ 5076.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

13092 points

166% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

315 FPS

221 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

158 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

223 FPS

161 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

123 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

5294.30 points

772% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

224604 points

335% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

200330 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

109243 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

193937 points

222% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

165252 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

1800 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

768 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

66% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

201.6 Gigapixels/s

81% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

604.8 Gigatexels/s

118% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

336% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10752

319% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

336

110% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

27th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2020 October

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 A6000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the RTX A6000 beats the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the RTX A6000 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 addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the RTX A6000 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A6000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080.