NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile

  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1468 MHz
  • 850.1x more texture fill rate: 199.7 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12546 vs 11414
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20429 vs 17105
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20429 vs 17105
  • Around 63% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 78491 vs 48090
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz vs 1468 MHz
Texture fill rate 199.7 GTexel/s vs 234.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12546 vs 11414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20429 vs 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20429 vs 17105
Geekbench - OpenCL 78491 vs 48090

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 6.7x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 715 vs 518
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5581 vs 3710
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5581 vs 3710
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 715 vs 518
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5581 vs 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5581 vs 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3356

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
518
715
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12546
11414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20429
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20429
17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3710
5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3360
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
78491
48090
Name NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 518 715
PassMark - G3D Mark 12546 11414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20429 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20429 17105
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 5581
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3360
Geekbench - OpenCL 78491 48090
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6008

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Pascal
Code name GA104 GP104
Place in performance rating 179 181
Launch date 27 June 2017
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1560 MHz 1468 MHz
Core clock speed 1080 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 199.7 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 12.78 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 12.78 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2560
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 199.7 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 7,516 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s 320.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective) 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready