Component comparison
GeForce RTX 3080 vs RTX A500
GeForce RTX 3080 vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce RTX 3080
- + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+648 GB/s)
- + Memory bus (bit) (+256 bit)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+55 W)
- + CUDA cores (+6656)
- + TMUs (+208)
- + ROPs (+64)
- + RT cores (+52)
- + Tensor cores (+208)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+22.52 TFLOPS)
- + Energy efficiency (+5.7)
- + PassMark (overall) (+9537)
- + Normalized score (+67.0)
B
RTX A500
Components are close in specs
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce RTX 3080
|
Component B
RTX A500
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2021 | 2021 |
| VRAM (GB) | 8 GB (+4 GB) | 4 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 760 GB/s (+648 GB/s) | 112 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 320 bit (+256 bit) | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 115 W (+55 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 | 8,704 (+6656) | 2,048 |
| TMUs | 272 (+208) | 64 |
| ROPs | 96 (+64) | 32 |
| RT cores | 68 (+52) | 16 |
| Tensor cores | 272 (+208) | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 29.77 TFLOPS (+22.52 TFLOPS) | 7.25 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 164.20 GPixel/s | — |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 465.10 GTexel/s | — |
| Energy efficiency | 26.0 (+5.7) | 20.2 |
| PassMark (overall) | 16,075 (+9537) | 6,538 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 10,752 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 27,194 | — |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 167,014 | — |
| Geekbench Vulkan | 145,176 | — |
| Normalized score | 82.8 (+67.0) | 15.8 |
Only in component A
ray_tracing
In both
CUDA
DLSS
ReBAR
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce RTX 3080 | 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 wins 13 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).