NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
1138.3x more texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 180 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB
121.5x more memory clock speed: 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 127071 vs 55548

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 15 August 2016
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s vs 283.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3584 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071 vs 55548

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Around 73% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1771 MHz vs 1440 MHz

Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1771 MHz vs 1440 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127071

55548

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071	55548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20151
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		4646
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4195
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		7209

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Pascal
Code name	GA100	GP104
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	15 August 2016
Place in performance rating	99	254
Launch price (MSRP)		$499.99
Price now		$439.99
Type		Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		43.70
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1771 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	2560
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	283.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	7,200 million
CUDA cores		2560
Floating-point performance		9,068 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Laptop size		large
API support
OpenCL	3.0
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	10 GB/s
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready