NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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$ 367.70

$ 1017.30 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

7111 points

0.13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

175 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

88 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

119 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

65 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

11018 points

0.02% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

3139.35 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points

124547 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

116149 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

83390 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

122638 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

127645 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

9% 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

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

140 W

78% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

299.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

90% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

6144

108% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

192

4% 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

67th of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs RTX A4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the RTX A4000 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A4000 is better than the GeForce RTX 2080.