NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 7424 vs 6912
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Launch date 2023 vs 16 Nov 2020
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines 7424 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

  • Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
  • 6.7x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204643 vs 161372
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 609.1 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 80 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 204643 vs 161372

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
161372
204643
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 965
PassMark - G3D Mark 25652
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 18974
Geekbench - OpenCL 161372 204643

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA100
Launch date 2023 16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating 29 33

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1410 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 386.3 GFLOPS (1:64) 9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 24.72 TFLOPS (1:1) 77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 24.72 TFLOPS 19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines 7424 6912
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s 609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 400 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 54200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 80 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s 2039 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 5120 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)