NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 22% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2944
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 215 Watt
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 127026 vs 103974

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Apr 2021 vs 20 September 2018
Pipelines	3584 vs 2944
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 215 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	127026 vs 103974

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1440 MHz
11.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz vs 1440 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127026

103974

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Geekbench - OpenCL	127026	103974
PassMark - G3D Mark		18799
PassMark - G2D Mark		905
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		10935

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Code name	GA100	TU104
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	101	100
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$749.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1710 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 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	2944
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
OpenCL	3.0
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6