GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and RTX A500 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

RTX A500

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GN21-X9

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2023

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

2280 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1860 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

5 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7424

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt (60 - 150 Watt TGP)

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

386.3

113.3

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

20000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

432.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

8.6

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

1.3