NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 1299.99

$ 524.96

$ 775.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points

418% significantly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS

384 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS

180 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS

270 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

64 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points

389% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points

346% significantly higher Blender score

1954.21 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

69543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz

260% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s

135% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W

70 W

499% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s

295% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s

508% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

48.64 TFLOPS

508% significantly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

207% significantly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

207% significantly more texture mapping units

104

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

9th of 586

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4080 vs RTX A2000 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the RTX A2000 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 RTX 4080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 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 GeForce RTX 4080 over the RTX A2000.