NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 320 Watt
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 320 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 2205 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1500 MHz
2.8x more texture fill rate: 761.5 GTexel/s vs 276.0 GTexel/s
Around 65% higher pipelines: 9728 vs 5888
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 240557 vs 107601

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed	2205 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate	761.5 GTexel/s vs 276.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines	9728 vs 5888
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	240557 vs 107601

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

107601

240557

Name	NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Geekbench - OpenCL	107601	240557
PassMark - G2D Mark		1236
PassMark - G3D Mark		34500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		6567
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		722.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		72.795
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		272.641

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Code name	GA104	AD103
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	20 Sep 2022
Place in performance rating	143	14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	2505 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	2205 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	552.0 GFLOPS (1:32)	761.5 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	17.66 TFLOPS (1:1)	48.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	17.66 TFLOPS	48.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5888	9728
Pixel fill rate	144.0 GPixel/s	280.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	276.0 GTexel/s	761.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt	320 Watt
Transistor count	17400 million	45900 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin
Form factor		Triple-slot
Height		61 mm, 2.4 inches
Length		310 mm, 12.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		700 Watt
Width		140 mm, 5.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	716.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X