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.

 

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 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 127026 vs 103470
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 103470

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
103470
Name NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Geekbench - OpenCL 127026 103470
PassMark - G3D Mark 18797
PassMark - G2D Mark 906
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