NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7111 points

7964 points

11% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

175 FPS

186 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

88 FPS

95 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

119 FPS

133 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

65 FPS

75 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3139.35 points

3279.67 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

124547 points

138398 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

116149 points

125425 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83390 points

91922 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

122638 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

113801 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

127645 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

103840 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1110 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

0.97% slightly higher boost clock speed

1545 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

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

115 W

21% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

149.8 Gigapixels/s

1% slightly higher pixel rate

148.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

299.5 Gigatexels/s

0.98% slightly higher texture rate

296.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

19.17 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

18.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

Identical

6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

Identical

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2021 January

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

RTX A4000 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop graphics card is better than the RTX A4000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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. Despite this, the RTX A4000 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a slightly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the RTX A4000.