NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

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NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

AI GPU We compared a GPU: 40GB VRAM A100 SXM4 40 GB and a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1555GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1770MHz vs 1410MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 40GB)

Lower TDP (260W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 SXM4 40 GB +19%

19.49 TFLOPS

Quadro RTX 8000

16.31 TFLOPS

Blender

A100 SXM4 40 GB

2186

Quadro RTX 8000 +49%

3259

OctaneBench

A100 SXM4 40 GB +49%

505

Quadro RTX 8000

337

A100 SXM4 40 GB

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Quadro RTX 8000

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Aug 2018

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Quadro

AI GPU

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1095 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

40GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

5120bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1555GB/s

Bandwidth

672.0GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

4608

432

TMUs

288

160

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

576

-

RT Cores

72

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

509.8 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.62 TFLOPS

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.31 TFLOPS

9.746 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

509.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

TU102

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GPU Variant

TU102-875-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

260W

800 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

7.5

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

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