GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q vs RTX A5000

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking36not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.90no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102GA104
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores81926144
Core clock speed1170 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1245 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate433.9239.0
Floating-point processing power27.77 TFLOPS15.3 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs256192
Tensor Cores256192
Ray Tracing Cores6448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 80 Watt

RTX A5000 has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3080 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 187.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5000 and GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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