Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

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Review

Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
Gaming
12
32
Workstation
23
38
AI/ML
14
0
Energy Efficiency
72
36
Quick Comparison Final Score
25
0
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop and GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop

  • + Ampere architecture
  • + GA107S codename
  • + 4GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x8 interface

Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

  • + Turing architecture
  • + TU104 (N18E-G3) codename
  • + 8GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 3.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • DLSS upscaling support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions

"A budget Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop graphics card with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • DLSS upscaling support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • Older generation architecture

"A entry-level Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile graphics card with modest workstation performance (38/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
24
76
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

The Witcher 3

1080p High
26
109
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
42
148
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Far Cry 6

1080p High
33
93
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
14
59
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Call of Duty

1080p High
26
82
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
13
56
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
18
70
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Tomb Raider

1080p High
36
112
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
FPS Table
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 24 — — — 76 — — —
The Witcher 3 26 — — — 109 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 42 — — — 148 — — —
Far Cry 6 33 — — — 93 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 14 — — — 59 — — —
Call of Duty 26 — — — 82 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 13 — — — 56 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 18 — — — 70 — — —
Tomb Raider 36 — — — 112 — — —
Average FPS 26——— 89———
Average FPS by Resolution
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
1080p High 35 110
1080p Ultra 26 89
1440p Ultra 18 65
4K Ultra 9 37
Margin of Error Medium Low

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
3021
GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile +222%
9737
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
Time Spy 3023 10053
Solar Bay 13710 44509
Port Royal 625 6007
Fire Strike 10265 25924
Wild Life Extreme 4053 20417
Night Raid 38312 95965
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
6570
GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile +129%
15014
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
G2D Mark 416 804
DirectX 11 40 FPS 139 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 53 FPS
GPU Compute 2911 Ops/s 6463 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
692.94
GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile +127%
1573.54

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
GB6 Compute Score 40574 116500
Background Blur 62.4 img/sec 226 img/sec
Face Detection 35.7 img/sec 122.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.62 Gpixels/sec 4.52 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.11 Gpixels/sec 5.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.05 Gpixels/sec 6.45 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.52 Gpixels/sec 1.26 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 185.1 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5502.5 FPS 14128.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 7597
GB6 ML Half Precision 15030
GB6 ML Quantized 5337
Image Classification (SP) 3298
Image Segmentation (HP) 8358
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6219
Face Detection (HP) 14319
Pose Estimation (Q) 22995
Text Classification (SP) 2226
Machine Translation (HP) 3163
Object Detection (SP) 3768
Depth Estimation (Q) 12079
Style Transfer (SP) 53139
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
General
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 22-Mar-22 29-Jan-19
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ampere Turing
GPU Codename GA107S TU104 (N18E-G3)
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above -Intel Core i7 9750Hor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
Base Clock 370-890 MHz (configurable) 1380 MHz
Boost Clock 745-1710 MHz (configurable) 1590 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2944
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 46
Tensor Cores 64 368
Ray-tracing Cores 16 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 24-55 GPixel/s 102 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 48-109 GTexel/s 293 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 3.1-7 TFLOPS 9.4 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 20-60 W (configurable) 150 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 12 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 545 mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 billion 13.6 billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm² 24.95 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
API
Specification Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop ↗ GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile ↗
DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3 1.2
CUDA 8.6 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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