NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

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AI GPU We compared a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 PCIe and a Desktop platform GPU: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (2535MHz vs 1410MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 40GB)

11264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe

19.49 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada +372%

92.15 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe

VS

RTX 6000 Ada

Graphics Card

Jun 2020

Release Date

Dec 2022

Tesla

Generation

Quadro Ada

AI GPU

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

765 MHz

Base Clock

2175 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

40GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

5120bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1555GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

142

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

18176

432

TMUs

568

160

ROPs

192

432

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

486.7 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1440 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

92.15 TFLOPS

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.15 TFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

AD102

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GPU Variant

AD102

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

4 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

608 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.9

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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