Component comparison
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX A500
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
- + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+800 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+320 bit)
- + CUDA cores (+8192)
- + TMUs (+256)
- + ROPs (+80)
- + RT cores (+64)
- + Tensor cores (+256)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+26.85 TFLOPS)
- + PassMark (overall) (+20222)
- + Normalized score (+50.5)
B
RTX A500
- + Energy efficiency (+6.1)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
|
Component B
RTX A500
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2021 | 2021 |
| VRAM (GB) | 12 GB (+8 GB) | 4 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | — | 1750 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 912 GB/s (+800 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 384 bit (+320 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | — | 60 W |
| Lithography (nm) | 8 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors (M) | 28,300M | — |
| Die size (mm²) | 628 mm² | — |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | — |
| Boost clock (MHz) | — | 1537 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 10,240 (+8192) | 2,048 |
| TMUs | 320 (+256) | 64 |
| ROPs | 112 (+80) | 32 |
| RT cores | 80 (+64) | 16 |
| Tensor cores | 320 (+256) | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 34.10 TFLOPS (+26.85 TFLOPS) | 7.25 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 186.50 GPixel/s | — |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 532.80 GTexel/s | — |
| Energy efficiency | 14.2 | 20.2 (+6.1) |
| PassMark (overall) | 26,760 (+20222) | 6,538 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | — | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 47,113 | — |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 209,081 | — |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | — |
| Normalized score | 66.3 (+50.5) | 15.8 |
Only in component A
ray_tracing
In both
CUDA
DLSS
ReBAR
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | RTX A500 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti wins 11 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).