Arc A380M vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	56	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	31.91	no data
Power efficiency	13.94	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code name	TU104	DG2-128
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	23 July 2019 (5 years ago)	24 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	3072	1024
Core clock speed	1650 MHz	1550 MHz
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz	2000 MHz
Number of transistors	13,600 million	7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	348.5	128.0
Floating-point processing power	11.15 TFLOPS	4.096 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	192	64
Tensor Cores	384	128
Ray Tracing Cores	48	8

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.1)
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	96 Bit
Memory clock speed	1937 MHz	1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth	495.9 GB/s	186.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

+

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	23 July 2019	24 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	35 Watt

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