NVIDIA A10G vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A10G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A10G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 492.5 GTexel/s vs 465.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 6% higher pipelines: 9216 vs 8704
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 320 Watt
  • Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 10 GB
  • Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 1563 MHz (12.5 Gbps effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 vs 1 Sep 2020
Texture fill rate 492.5 GTexel/s vs 465.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 9216 vs 8704
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 320 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 10 GB
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz (12.5 Gbps effective) vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1320 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 167014 vs 165608
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1040 vs 578
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25228 vs 18773
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1440 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 167014 vs 165608
PassMark - G2D Mark 1040 vs 578
PassMark - G3D Mark 25228 vs 18773

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A10G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
165608
167014
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
578
1040
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
18773
25228
Name NVIDIA A10G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Geekbench - OpenCL 165608 167014
PassMark - G2D Mark 578 1040
PassMark - G3D Mark 18773 25228
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 457.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 6022.79
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 51.221
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 175.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2381.93
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 34537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 34537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17755

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A10G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA102 GA102
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating 56 55
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1710 MHz 1710 MHz
Core clock speed 1320 MHz 1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 985.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 465.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.52 TFLOPS (1:1) 29.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 31.52 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9216 8704
Pixel fill rate 164.2 GPixel/s 164.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 492.5 GTexel/s 465.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 320 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches) 285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm (4.4 inches) 112 mm, 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches

API support

DirectX 12.2 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 10 GB
Memory bandwidth 600.2 GB/s 760.3 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 320 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz (12.5 Gbps effective) 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X