NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 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.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 795 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1350 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 322.6 GTexel/s vs 313.2 GTexel/s
2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB

Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 795 MHz
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz vs 1350 MHz
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s vs 313.2 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 12 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more pipelines: 7424 vs 3584
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 65% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 165 Watt
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Launch date	2023 vs 12 Apr 2021
Pipelines	7424 vs 3584
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Code name	GA100	AD104
Launch date	12 Apr 2021	2023
Place in performance rating	99	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1440 MHz	1350 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	795 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)	313.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)	20.04 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.32 TFLOPS	20.04 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3584	7424
Pixel fill rate	138.2 GPixel/s	108.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	322.6 GTexel/s	313.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	35800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Portable Device Dependent
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	933.1 GB/s	336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	3072 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	HBM2e	GDDR6