NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 RTX A500 Embedded

  • 308.1x more texture fill rate: 85.44 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
  • 5.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 137.5x more memory clock speed: 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 435 MHz
  • Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1733 MHz vs 1335 MHz
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 887 vs 441
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15536 vs 6770
  • Around 40% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 55523 vs 39800
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 435 MHz
Boost clock speed 1733 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 887 vs 441
PassMark - G3D Mark 15536 vs 6770
Geekbench - OpenCL 55523 vs 39800

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
441
887
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6770
15536
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
39800
55523
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 887
PassMark - G3D Mark 6770 15536
Geekbench - OpenCL 39800 55523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7537

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA107S GP104
Place in performance rating 272 273
Launch date 27 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $439.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 43.72

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz 1733 MHz
Core clock speed 435 MHz 1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2560
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s 277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 180 Watt
CUDA cores 2560
Floating-point performance 8,873 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 94 °C
Transistor count 7,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Width 2-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective 10 GB/s
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready